Giving Yourself the Grace you Deserve

I talk a lot about grace on this page. A word that honestly didn’t mean all that much to me before this autism live. But now, well, grace is everything.

Because as parents, we can be way too hard on ourselves.

When I speak to parents of newly diagnosed kids, and parents of kids diagnosed long before autism was a common word, they all tell me similar stories. Every single parent.

They tell me about the things they didn’t know.

They didn’t know that their child was in pain. Or they didn’t know what caused the meltdowns. Or the self-injurious behavior.

They didn’t know what the triggers were. They didn’t know just how loud the sounds were or how bright the lights could be to their child.

They didn’t know about the chronic ear infections or the stomachaches or that their child was suffering.

They didn’t know because their child couldn’t communicate.

And more importantly, no one would listen.

These parents beat themselves up. They tell me that they failed their child.