The future of our children

July 19, 2010

Lately I have been reading some of the posts on here and thinking a lot about my

child's future. I have NO doubt in my mind that my son will be a productive,

sucessful citizen. I homeschool him and we get very indepth with certain

subjects. He can learn much better than at a private or public school and the

resources are endless. He is 7 now and when he graduates he will attend college

like every other child in America. It will not be a special college either, it

may very well be Washington University as it is in our city of

Fredericksburg. I know that one day he too will have a family and I look forward

to having grandchildren. Not one time have I ever thought that he would be a

stock boy at Walmart or the service guy at our local Exxon, Shell, Wawa, etc..

Not one time have I thought that he would never amount to much or ever let him

think that. Never ever have I thought of his disability as a bad thing. There is

greatness in all these children and our job is to guide them to become

greatness! Sometimes I think that we tend to hinder our children more than their

disability by setting the bar so low that they believe thenselves that they

can't do anything or won't amount to much.

We used to live in Georgia and they had very little resources to help, so I

moved to Virginia, where I was born and my parents were raised. Here there is a

lot of help, BUT DON'T RELY ON THE SCHOOL SYSTEM TO TELL YOU ABOUT IT OR HELP

YOU GET IT! You have to do your home work as I have read that many of you have

and you have to know, have to have faith, and have to believe that God blessed

you with this special child for a reason! The road is less traveled, tiring, and

we all feel that we are treading on broken glass barefoot, but we all choose to

be parents even though God choose us to be parents of Aspie children, again for

a reason! If you stop clipping their wings and allow them to fly, who knows how

high they will soar!

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