We don’t always get the cards dealt to us that we want. Sometimes life is quite cruel that way. We really didn’t want the Whirlwind’s autism diagnosis. We knew that’s what we got, but kept hoping that maybe, just maybe all the signs are wrong. Maybe he’s just delayed and will catch up before we even knew it.
But, as life would have it, we were given a different set of rules than those we wanted. And the crazy began. I have felt the hopelessness deep inside me grow steadily over the last year and a half. There has been a great sadness in my heart for everything that is and everything that isn’t and should have been.
But that has all changed. I can’t help but feel like our world is finally turning around. Even though winter is officially almost here and we’ve already hit freezing temperatures outside, spring has arrived within our family. There is more than hope.
We found the most amazing autism center. We went through the evaluation process and had our meeting today where we hammered out our goals and a plan of action. Around the table we had his new occupational therapist, behavioural interventionist, senior behavioural interventionist, speech therapist and on skype we had the behavioural consultant. We have a plan, people! We have a plan! No more guessing and wondering about what to do and what not. This is it. This plan is right. I can feel it in my bones. I just know that this is it.
This team right here is the first group of people who totally got it. They know my son. There have only been one other person outside of our immediate family who seemed to understand him this well. He has seen tons of professionals in the Autism world and nobody gave me such an amazing feeling of confidence. I know this is right. I know he’ll be successful here.
More importantly, I now know he’ll be successful at life. He will make it. I know it as certainly as I knew he had autism before his evaluation. I’m not hoping he makes it in life, I know he will. There is no need to hope for something that you know will happen for sure. This will happen.
He will be fine.
We will be fine.
Our family will be just fine...
