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Max’s Two Words about Autism

November 6, 2015 by Emily Colson

“Max!” I said with the kind of enthusiasm I hoped would be contagious, “We are going to like this new doctor. He has a daughter with autism!” I tried to mask my own nerves, wondering how we would get through the next-day’s appointment in the city. I watched Max for a reaction as he bounced in his seat and started eating his dinner in a style reminiscent of a wood-chipper. Sometimes dinner in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Asperger, Autism, Emily Colson, Love, Peace Tagged With: Dancing With Max, Emily Colson, love, parenting a child with special needs, parenting special needs, special needs, Special Needs parents, weary

Max’s Go2 Team!

September 4, 2015 by Emily Colson

I’m letting you in on the start of a God-inspired project. I don’t know how it’s going to play out, but I do know one thing: life with special needs requires a team. So that’s exactly what we’re doing – building a team around our family.  A few weeks ago I bravely sent a letter to 9 people in Max’s life inviting them to be a part of this team – teachers, buddies from church, family. I’ve … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Asperger, Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, Emily Colson, Epilepsy, Medically Fragile, Mental Illness Tagged With: autism, christian parenting, Emily Colson, family support, not alone, parenting special needs, special needs, special needs parenting, Special Needs parents, support system

Those Words that Let Us Know We Aren’t Alone

August 21, 2015 by Emily Colson

I brought my son Max to a neurophysiologist’s office for an evaluation. If you aren’t familiar with a “neuropsych eval,” it is a two-hour process in which you must: 1) Sit 2) Remain sitting 3) Give the allusion that you are paying attention while you remain sitting. Back then, when Max was nine years old, and already years into the diagnosis of autism, fulfilling any of these three … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Autism, Behaviors, Emily Colson Tagged With: autism, Emily Colson, Encouragement, grace, not alone, parenting a child with special needs, power of words

The Privilege of Freedom

July 3, 2015 by Emily Colson

Max galloped across the quarter-mile field toward the Old North Bridge, one hand holding imaginary reigns and the other hand holding the failing elastic in his shorts. “I’m Paul Revere!” he shouted as he passed by other less enthusiastic visitors. Max loves everything about the Revolutionary War. He loves the facts, dates, soldiers, and he might even go for a pair of wool knickers if they came … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Autism, Emily Colson, Joy, Living In The Moment, Living Life Daily Tagged With: Abraham Kuyper, autism, Emily Colson, Freedom, not alone, special needs parenting

A Man and His Vacuum

June 5, 2015 by Emily Colson

We bolted into the store so quickly that I thought Max might pull the handle right off the door. He was on a mission, but I had one too. My job was to size up the clerk. I looked across the store and saw a rather serious looking older man wearing a black suit and standing behind the counter. This is not going to go well, I thought. We would do much better in a store like this with a clerk who … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Autism, Emily Colson Tagged With: autism, autism spectrum, Dancing With Max, Emily Colson, hope, joy, special needs parenting

The Certainty of Risk

February 7, 2014 by Emily Colson

Something redeeming happens when you admit your deepest hurts—you meet people. People become part of the healing. My son Max and I had a terrible experience when we went to the movies last month. Maybe you read about it. Max broke movie theater etiquette and was talking through the previews, laughing too loudly at Kermit. But there was more… he panicked a few times when the volume of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Autism, Emily Colson, Hidden Disabilities Tagged With: autism, community, Emily Colson, Encouragement, kindness

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