Finding Perspective as an Autism Parent: First, Put on Your Own Breathing Mask - 0 views
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Emergency professionals are taught that the first person they must ensure is safe from harm at the scene of an emergency is themselves for the simple reason that if they are injured they are no longer in a position to help anyone else. The same holds true for parents for if they don’t protect their own wellbeing and collapse from the strain emotionally or if they drive themselves into financial ruin, they are no longer in a position to help their children with autism or to help their children who do not have autism.
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Ever the most heroic emergency worker can be confronted by their personal limitations and, to be a good emergency worker, they must accept them so that “all is not lost” in the process of “trying to save everything.” For our families to survive, we parents of children with autism must also be realistic when facing our own personal limitations. No one else can face them for us.