by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 30, 2012 | Art, Autism/Disability, Motherhood
Are you a visual person? Chances are, if you are a parent of a child with autism, you’re visual like me. If you’re an artist, ditto. Here’s a coping strategy I developed early in my journey with my daughter. Most all our special needs children are...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 23, 2012 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Motherhood, Nashville!
The guest band was rocking. I stood by the ice cream truck watching my daughter do her wacky dance. She'd led us over to the truck and kept periodically asking for ice cream and pointing to the pictures on the truck, but just about the time we'd cue up for a...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 16, 2012 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood
More thoughts on making peace with public perceptions of disAbility differences. (Written as a Facebook response to another special needs mother, much younger than I and newer to the Journey): Special needs parents have the challenge of not only dealing with the...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 9, 2012 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Motherhood
All the axioms are true and apply: I'm a work in progress. | Aren't we all? | Grief is a process. Then there's disAbility grief. A form of grief that never ends. If dealt with, it lessens. It diminishes. But, because there is no death, no making a...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Oct 1, 2012 | Autism/Disability, Motherhood, Nashville!
Today is moving day (to our new condo) and that's a twist and turn of a story that I will be sharing here about a year from now. And the details on the why will forthcome then. Seriously. In virtual time, however, I'm over at Vanderbilt Children's...
by Leisa A. Hammett | Sep 20, 2012 | Autism/Disability, Grief & Loss, Motherhood
My intuition told me not to say it. I'm glad I listened. In time, my own child would be diagnosed with a disAbility and I got it that my good intentions may not have been received so warmly…. I admired my neighbor for many reasons. She also had a daughter...
