autism is a journey: Tribute Video--"He's my Son"

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Tribute Video--"He's my Son"

I spent the last 2 nights working on this music video. Once I started thinking about making one to share for Autism Awareness month, it kind of consumed me....I hope you like what you see...

Don't forget to pause the music on the right side of this page befor starting this movie...

2 comments:

tylerbritney said...: Awesome job Heather! You are a great mom and Jackson is so lucky to have you. I may make a slideshow for my friends and family about Tyler one day.; March 30, 2008 at 4:59 PM
Proudmom98 said...: Heather you are a wonderful person inside and out! I love the video and it brought me to tears!!!! Marcus loves Jackson and thinks the world of him. I will get you that picture of Dan and Jackson this week at scouts so you can post it.; April 18, 2008 at 5:53 AM

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from "Metaphor-the puzzle piece symbol"

Ever had one of those "ah-ha" moments? I'm driving down the road today, pondering Jackson's recent successes--boyscout camp and football camp. It occurred to me that each experience gave me back a piece of Jackson. [I'm not doing a very good job explaining this...] When we learned about Jackson's diagnosis, so many dreams were snuffed out. We no longer thought about our son becoming an athlete, a scholar, or even a friend. We thought in much smaller terms:"how many words does he have?""did he learn a new sign""is he reaching out to us?""that's playing pretend, isn't it?"Our perspective as parents permanently changed. It's like we had this complete picture of our child and autism fractured it--into a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle.Each day little by little, we get pieces of the puzzle back. It'll never be complete, never the same as we expected, but there will be parts that will come together.Like when he participated in the school music program, enjoyed boyscout camp, rode the roller coaster and attended football camp. Bit by bit, we get pieces of what we expected back.Of course, the flip side of this is all the joys we gain from Jackson that we never expected in spite of the autism, but that's another post my friends....