Hello and welcome to my blog. I can’t wait to hear from you.
So here is my first topic: What have you done to cope with the diagnosis and what changed in your life?
I can tell you that my life has changed a LOT. Here I am starting my own business and my own blog. As hard as it was to hear the diagnosis from a doctor, it all started to make sense to me once I was able to start thinking clearly. Now I know that he asks some questions over and over because he is not processing the information, and/or because he is not understanding what I am asking him to do. I think it made me a better mother too. On the other hand, it also made me angry for not seeing all the signs…maybe I did see the signs but was trying to convince myself that I was just seeing things, or just making excuses…
For so long we always heard that our son was just “complicated”. Such a smart boy, with a lot of language and the desire to socialize…but never a concrete diagnosis.
Copping was a long process. I felt guilty, angry, anxious, sorry, helpless, fearful…needless to say that I cried a lot.
Those feeling have not all gone away, but I feel stronger now…I still feel I am copping and learning how to deal with my feelings one day at a time.
Regardless, I love him more and more and would never change a thing about him.