The Joys of parenting a child with Autism

I recieved this from my friend Jen today...thought I'd share! I really am blessed!

A Few Joys of Raising Autistic Children


We get to enjoy our favorite movie line quotes again and again and again.

Peer pressure—what’s that?

If the definition of humor is absurd and unexpected responses—we have A LOT of good jokes!

I actually prefer all my measuring cups lined up end to end across the kitchen floor.

There’s untold joy in finally toilet-training that 8-yr old.

Fresh perspectives on parenting, relationships, the gospel, and the history of steam engines.

Buzz Lightyear is actually a member of our family.

I have met more angels since my autistic child was born than most people meet in a life time.

I may have been compelled to learn it, but what better attributes than patience and compassion.

I know more about parenting than all the other parents I know combined; because they all gave me their advice.

Living with a developmental delay is like watching child development with time-lapse photography—you can actually see the Lord’s hand in it.

I love to end all of my sentences with “Not-otherwise-specified”.

Chasing a totally unaware child the entire length of Disney Land and back burns roughly 15,000 calories—that’s like 25 donuts!

When my child is displaying some echolalia, I just say out loud, “Mom, you are sooo good lookin’!”

They say autism is complicated, but with a child who has no social awareness, “What you see is what you get”—could these children be more simplistic?

Children of few words rarely talk back.

It is the lessons we learn from teaching our “outside-of –the box” children, that help us to be better teachers of all children.

Could it be that my autistic child came here to lead me to the hand of God?

If flowers grow best when there is both sun and rain, we must be living in a lush rainforest!

Sometimes it’s nice to be loved by someone who has never passed a judgment.

Are there references to autism in the Bible? Oh, yes!--those who had no guile.

A child that doesn’t learn deception until age 12 and still isn’t any good at it two years later is pretty easy to keep in line.

When you live with someone who interprets everything literally, “cashews” become something cows wear on their feet, and “notions” are people who have no shins.