Happy Mother's Day to All Autism Moms!
Happy Mother’s Day 2025
You may never get the ‘hugs’ or ‘love’ words, but you know they are there even if your child cannot emotionally express them.
Here are just some ‘Mom excerpts’ from my ‘Extended Book Reviews’; with < My Thoughts > by Sara Luker which can be found on my website MENU. Go to sarasautismsite.com.
Susan Senator is the mother of three boys, the oldest of whom has autism. She is also the author of –The Autism Mom’s Survival Guide (for Dad’s, too!): Creating a Balanced and Happy Life While Raising a Child with Autism by Susan Senator.
One day you will feel that something inside you has shifted, lightened. When you look at your child, you no longer see a mass of problems, a broken thing to be fixed; you see your kid, just your kid. One day you will know that it’s just your life, warts, autism, and all. And you can’t wait to start living it to its fullest. Once you know this…you have just won the game.
From – Building in Circles: The Best of Autism Mom by Elizabeth W. Barnes, eBook 2014; with < My Thoughts > by Sara Luker
My name is Elizabeth and I am an Autism Mom. Our son, who we call the Navigator, is nine and was diagnosed on the Autism Spectrum at the age of seven. Before his diagnosis, I had heard of Autism – non-verbal children who don’t like to be touched, who rocked, and who ritually lined things up.
There is no one thing or even series of things that work all the time, or are even discernible as a pattern. There is a need for constant analysis and creativity, which is exhausting and sometimes seemingly fruitless. Because there is no cookie-cutter approach, I developed a website and blog in case our experiences could help others. That website is Autism Mom.
From – Knowing Autism by Lorca Damon (2012). Extended Book Review with < My Thoughts > by Sara Luker
I certainly don’t waste a lot of time trying to make Carrie become normal. …I do spend a lot of time trying to prepare her to live in the real world when she is older...
I want her to grow up to have a job that she enjoys, not some menial task in a sheltered workshop that wastes her really sharp mind.
I want her to be as independent as she can be, because it means the transition to the group home she will probably live in will be a lot less painful for both of us. I want her to be able to form relationships…
But she can’t do any of those things if I don’t make her adapt to a world that is very different from the one she would like to retreat to inside her head.
Now that autism is here, and is here to stay, there is no point in wasting Carrie’s life by pretending that it is a good thing or that it is where she has to stay for the rest of her life.
I work with her very diligently BUT LOVINGLY to bring her out of her isolated world, one baby step at a time.
End of ‘Mom excerpts’ from my ‘Extended Book Reviews’; with < My Thoughts > by Sara Luker
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Happy Mother's Day to all Autism Mom's!
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Sara Luker
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