SOOC Saturday The many reasons to be hopeful

One of R’s therapists is expecting a baby

And has the worst morning sickness

“Who made the term morning sickness.. a man probably ..its all day everyday” she grumbles

As R, the human Prozac, holds her face in his hands to kiss her, her mood changes and she says

 “ It will be all worth it one day though.. one day when I have a child like R”

A child like R !

Not something a mother of a special needs child gets to hear ...ever

In the early days of our autism-life,   we would ask everybody for a prognosis – neurologist, psychologist, earlyinterventionist, person-who-knew-any-autistic-people-ist, mother of auties etc – as to what the future looked like for R

It did not take us long to realize that nobody knew

In fact, we were the ones that R’s world looked to ,

To describe R,

To know his worth

To predict his future

And so we chose the contended road

Chose to look at all of R- not just his problems

Unabashedly boasted about his strengths

Ruled nothing out

It has been the single most important choice we have made as parents and is the source of our happy  family

Further, It has been the most powerful therapy that we have used

For R in the glow of our adoring gaze is simply  blossoming

Last but not the least, his teachers and therapists , are infected by our hope and faith in him

So much so

That someone wants a child like R

Here is R giggling with a therapist who uses this picture as her facebook profile

Lovely Melody asks us to share something that makes us happy

And the love he gets from those that don’t have to love him but still do - makes me so

On her site you will meet her and other bloggers who share bits of their happies