Mother's Intuition by Alysia

Guest post by Alysia Butler of Try Defying Gravity

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I’m so glad you’re here.

I understand that you’ve been struggling.  Please, sit down.  It’s a lot to ask, I know, when things are out of control around you, but you’ll feel better if you sit for a moment.

Take a deep breath.

Again, I’m happy you’re here.  It doesn’t matter how you got here.  Maybe you Googled “my son has meltdowns not tantrums” and that’s how you found us.  Or maybe your friend suggested a web search for “sensory processing disorder” because she saw something in your daughter’s behaviors that looked familiar, like her own son’s.  Or maybe…

Maybe you’re here because you just know something is different about your child.  And you feel so alone.

That was me three years ago.  I knew in my heart that my son wasn’t like the other kids.  He was not like his older brother at all. I actually knew it from birth, but it wasn’t until he was almost two years old that I really grasped that something about him was just…different. 

Everyone told me not to compare my two boys.  “Your oldest was SO advanced”, they’d say, “and so easy going.”  “My second boy was much wilder than my first.”  “You wouldn’t want your kids to be exactly alike, would you?”

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