Diary of an imperfect mum: Parenting from a Special Perspective: A blog about Raising my Autistic Son

Ever wondered what it is really like to parent from a special perspective? Parent to a Special Needs Child? Where do you turn for help? What challenges do you face? What has surprised you? What have you learned? Every month I will be featuring one of my brilliant fellow SEND bloggers and sharing their reflections on raising a child with special needs.

Welcome Lynne to Diary of an Imperfect Mum. Lynne blogs over at A blog about Raising my Autistic Son. Lynne is married to Nick and they have four children. Their eldest teenage son is on the autistic spectrum. Family life is hectic and funny – friends often comment that they feel they have been in a sitcom following a visit! Lynne is also a Speech and Language Therapist.

 

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Mom Picks Son Up Out of Shopping Cart. What the Woman Behind Her Sees Has Her Calling It ‘Repulsing’

What the stranger didn’t understand left Mom speechless with anger.

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Mum succeeds in bringing Changing Places toilet to Retford | Retford Times

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Mom Humiliated Son For Buying A Christmas Tree, Years Later Her Response Shook Him To the Core. – InspireMore

Since the early 15th century in Germany, people have been using evergreens as a symbol…Read More »

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“He Has Aspergers” and Everything Else I Never Wanted To Hear About My Son

A post telling it as it is, the love, the anguish, and feeling what more can I do.

A Buick in the Land of Lexus

Do you hear that?

Come closer.

That’s the sound of my heart breaking.

My son has always loved the ocean. His eyes are the color of the sea, changing from blue to green with the swell of the tide.  And my love for him is an ocean, an overwhelming force which is sometimes calm and steady, and other times full of conflict.

A mother’s love is like the continuous miracle of the sea. It begins in the ocean of your womb – but there is something unsettling about the way your baby kicks. So fiercely you feel bruised on the inside.

There is something willful and stubborn about his refusal to come out. He arrives weeks late, and even then – after almost 40 hours of labor.

Your baby is overwhelming and mysterious and brutal, like the ocean. He screams uncontrollably for hours a day, every day. And you bring him to…

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