autism is a journey: Friday Night Lights---We're Back!!

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Friday Night Lights---We're Back!!

Jackson loves to go down to watch the Churubusco football games. Last night he went in his Spiderman costume. (I"ll post a picture soon!)

This year, he yells, "Go Skylar Greve" instead of "Let's Go Busco". Skylar helped him in summer football camp...for now, the games are fun; it's not too hot or cold and the boys are blowing out the other teams...we're currently undefeated!

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tylerbritney said...: Jax is really getting into it this year! Maybe you could take him to a Colts game! :); September 13, 2008 at 12:45 PM

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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....