I get questions constantly asking how having a child with autism affected my marriage. They come from parents of kids with disabilities thare going through the same struggles and stresses that I go though. I'll be honest, for years I blamed the breakdown of my marriage on Autism. The sheer stress of it. The weight of it. The chaos that surrounded us the instant we received the diagnosis. Autism has its own force. I often refer to it as a tornado. In order to help our son we had to give up complete control of our lives and follow its path. At times it was all too much. It was more than two people could handle.
I was wrong though. Autism didn’t cause our divorce. The heartbreak of it did. And the different way that two people perceived grief. And in the end, it brought us back to together.
I am the mother to a six year old, nonverbal boy on the spectrum. I share a glimpse into our secret world at Finding Coopers Voice.
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