Come Be With Me

In this episode of Compassion Confetti for Autism Moms, I go into more detail of my autism parenting experience.

I discuss the story I built in my head about all the ways I "failed" my son. I go on to discuss the ways the sting of this failure softened in my heart.

I talk about how I tried to "fix" the autism and the results of some of those attempts.

At a point or two, I get very sad talking about some of what happened. But I managed to laugh here and there as well. Laughter, after all, brings light into your life and heart.

But it's the hindsight that is so bittersweet. If only I knew how far we would come.  So much fear and suffering could have been spent in gentle acceptance and peace. I wish that for all of us.

[01:42] Collete’s family story with autism

[02:52] Collete’s aspiration to be the best stay-at-home mom

[03:47] Securing her first teaching job in a special needs & disabled children class

[07:06]  Why Collete realized she’d have a special kid while pregnant & her delivery story

[09:06] Her son’s swollen lymph nodes & experience with an ear infection at six months

[16:02] Her son mistaken vaccinations at 15 months, which led to a whole new experience

[20:18] Things that smacked Collete on the face but chose to ignore regarding them as insignificant

[21:23] Colette’s experience with her son's diagnosis 

[28:30] The diagnosis path, meeting all specialists & doing all diest to improve her son’s quality of life

[32:43] Colette’s worst experience in life

[37:00] Her son’s experience in school & having to shift from mainstream learning to a contained classroom

[39:10] Colette’s aha moment with her sons after the divorce & dealing with a failure wound

[44:09] Her son’s high school experience and what she is doing currently

[47:47] Living from a place of love & being a good enough parent

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