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 peo...