Sometimes it takes an incredible hot chick's point of view to change your own.
Driving to training on Sunday with Shannon. We were talking as we usually do and the conversation of the glass half empty or half full came up.
She said:
Is the glass half full or half empty? Well, were you filling it up for drinking from it? That is how you can tell. What is the point of guessing at something that you don't have the information for?
It made realize how many things that we take for face value and don't look into. And that lack of digging forces us to make uneducated or straight up dumb decisions.
Our son is on the Autism scale. He has been for a while. The first 6 or 8 months we denied it. Said "It's not our kid" "That won't happen to us". Denying it was a problem. But why deny it? Simple now that I look at it for this prospective. We didn't know what the behavioral traits were, we didn't know what the medical signs were. We didn't know anything about Autism.
We have spent a lot of time researching and learning. The more we learned the more we wanted to learn. We have learned a lot, and found that there is still a lot more for everyone to learn.
The biggest thing we know understand is that our son is different. Not in a bad way. Not in the "we have to lock in him the basement when the company comes over" different. It means that he has a different way of interacting and a different way of looking at things. Which means we continually adjust how we parent as we learn more about his awesomeness.
That, for us, was huge. Odin is our world and we love him more than anything. We now know that we will be doing things a little different than most parents do and that is cool with us.
Autism is not a "disease". It's a way of life.
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