Personal Narrative
Leaving Only The Hard Part of Autism
By Katie Emde
An autism mom shares how she came to terms with her son ’ s diagnosis .
We became familiar with the autism world in one event .
Let ’ s go back in time , to when I knew nothing about autism and my life was in a fragile state of exhaustion . I never slept and when I did , I would wake up suddenly .
My mind was flooded with ideas , thoughts , and plans of how I was going to help my son Avery leave “ the hard ”. I had this idea that it was a simple fix