Five Things I’ve Learned While Parenting Autistic Kids
Nov 5 · 9 min read
This parenting gig is hard and sometimes I think I learn more from my boys than they will ever learn from me. I’ve never parented non-autistic kids, so I don’t know if I’m automatically narrowing my audience, but here it is. Maybe it will give you some insight into some families you may know.
Anyway, here are five hard lessons that my boys have helped me learn in the last nine years.
- This isn’t about me.
The decision to have children was an absolute joyful day. I remember the moment…

