This is something you could do...

People often ask what they can do for me, or say they wish they could help the girls. Well, there is something and my friend Michelle put it very well so over to her.

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I've talked about Lydia before and regulars will know she has given me insights and perspectives on aspects of autism I could never have learned if it weren't for her. So, if you want to help, here's something you can do.

I just found this on another blog...

Why the Dichotomy

I am often

Only who I'm not

But you don't care

As long as I have words for you.

You can't understand

(Through no fault of your own?)

That who I am

Is not the me you see

Do you want to work on that?

They ask

No I don't;

I want to be free

But in this world

The only freedom

Is to be

Everything you aren't

I read this and it struck so many chords on so many levels I thought I'd share it with you. Think about how you are around autistic people. Think what you ask of them. Think how you let them be, if you let them be. That question "Through no fault of your own?" Ask yourself that and answer truthfully.

Read and inwardly digest

A message from Lydia... read this