Some days, at a very base level, it's syringes, tears, therapies and hospitals.
But that’s not all it is.
It’s also supporting our children beyond what the doctors THINK is possible into what they WANT to achieve.
It’s about showing them what’s possible not just probable and trusting their hearts and soul them with that dream.
It’s about taking what’s not likely and making it a goal.
It’s about accepting their neuro diversity as the next stage of evolution that we don’t understand yet.
It’s about showing them what’s possible or supporting them in the ' impossible’.
It’s running through the waves with them so they can feel the sea splash on their face.
It's carrying them down a waterfall just so they can see the rainbow through the water.
It’s using a shower chair so they can feel what it’s like to have their day washed away.
It’s taking what others take for granted and making a pathway for them to experience it too.
It’s finding a way.
It's doing it tough.
It’s feeling the sunbeams shine through your heart when you nail it and the searing pain of not being able to make it happen.
It’s carrying your kid up three flights of foam steps in a play centre and holding them up so you can help them use a foam ball blaster.
It’s getting in the water at pool party and moving them with their class mates so that they can be part of the fun.
It’s being grateful that you have one safe food and that today they will be able to swallow that chip like their mates.
It’s carrying someone half your body weight across wet sand so they can see a dinosaur footprint.
It’s championing diversity so that is becomes everyday to their mates too, so the world they grown up in accepts them as equal.
It’s knowing that harder isn’t always worse.
The world is what we create for our people and the world will see them through our eyes.
It’s the privilege of a perspective we never could have known without the guidance of the not “typical".
It’s not about separating.. it’s about coming together. Society is a patchwork of people and we need every different square and every stitch.
Disability, Diversity, difference is an essential part of that neurodivergent patchwork and I am so grateful I get to see the world this way.