“Loving, supportive parent” or “a barer of false hope”?
I want to introduce to you all, my wife, Lizze. She's an admin on this site but rarely ever posts. I asked her to post this today because I really, really liked what she had to say. I think that it's an important message that may apply to many of us. If you want to read more of her writings, please visit her blog at www.mylifebeyondlabels.com. So Gavin has been having a more difficult time of things lately. Which makes me sad, not just as a mother but as his mother. Gavin is like a bead on a string - forever moving, forever changing...nothing is ever the same with him. One day he's high functioning, full fledged Asperger's-type behavior. The next he's lower functioning, and acting more like a stereo-typical Autistic child, Then…