Autism
I found out I was pregnant 20 years ago. I never knew what life would bring into this world when I had my daughter. I thought my daughter was like any other child growing up. I never thought of her as anything different. Except one day I had a mom come up to me and said “you need to get your child tested for autism.” I looked at her and I thought she was crazy. There was nothing wrong with my daughter. She was perfect the way she was. She was odd and a little hyper at times, ok very hyper at times. It wasn’t something I didn’t have control over. I knew my daughter had trouble following basic lists. She didn’t understand how to put herself in other people's shoes. She really didn’t understand people's emotions. No matter how hard I was trying to teach her these things, she never grasped these things. I just thought that one day, when she is older, she will. She will learn to take cues from people who are upset and understand what that feeling is like. After 19 y