Fair or Theme Park anyone?

Going on family outings are always on the list for us! Even though sometimes we end up back at the same ride over and over again, because Atticus has to ride all the trucks… It’s ok though we have learned to embrace it. He’s not big on waiting in lines so we do try and avoid going on extremely busy days. And that alone proves to be difficult during the summer time when everyone is on outings with the family. We did however get lucky on this particular trip to Galveston, TX. It was a cloudy day with some rain on and off, so not very many people wanted to be on the pier. However, we decided to give it a try since the crowd was so small and even if we didn’t stay all day we would get to ride the rides as many times as we wanted because there were no lines. And I’m glad we did, each time he came around that circle in a different truck his face lit up! I know I was just standing there looking like I didn’t have any control over my child who got off and back on between ever stop but I didn’t care.

Mom guilt and Mom pressure is a tough place to be when raising an autistic kid. So many times, people say to me they didn’t know Atticus was/is autistic or make comments like well you can’t even tell.. both statements seem so odd to me. It’s almost like they wanted to say “something” about how he was acting or how I should discipline him and then realize ohhh he’s handicap and get to scared to say what’s on their mind. I also get A LOT of people who say “I feel for you”, “I don’t know how you do it”, or “God sure knew what he was doing when he made you his mom”. Let’s not go there today, if you want to hear more about that keep following along to see more post and I’ll keep this one short by saying do what you need to do for you kid, and if an opportunity presents itself to ride a ride over and over, I hope you let them.

From a mother’s perspective – Rachel