![]() Not only did he not make eye contact with me or play with any of the toys, but he cried and threw his body against the ground in protest. That morning I had tried to interest Harry with a puzzle. But there was this one day that something clicked into place. I was choking, sometimes literally, from the desperate feeling that I was failing my children. All first-time parents suffer from imposter syndrome, but this was a morbid case. I'm a stay-at-home mom who freelances, so until the therapists were in place, I was alone with two children who were ostensibly the same children I had parented the days, weeks, and months before, but who I no longer felt qualified to parent. I knew something was wrong, but nothing could have prepared me for hearing those words.įor awhile I was in a sickening fog. ![]() ![]() Earlier this year, my two-and-a-half-year-old twin boys Harry and Luke were diagnosed with autism. ![]()
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