Not Broken - How My Son with Autism Taught Me to Live

I am an Autism Mom. That took me years of tears and confusion, laughter and pain, fighting and advocating, plus rationalizing and self-blame... to say and really feel.  It wasn't because I was ashamed or secretive about my son's diagnosis, I was actually very loud and proud.  As parents of special needs kids, we want to protect them from the label.  I too was afraid to let this label, this "Autism Mom" define me, become me, swallow me whole.  And just as I have treated my son