Heather Roach, AAC Experience
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Heather Roach
That’s a wrap on elementary school!
The end of the year brings so many emotions, and for most families it’s a rush of excitement with field trips, celebrations, end-of-year events. We get all of that too. But there’s also the quiet (and not-so-quiet) advocacy happening in the background.
Will the field trip be inclusive? Is the elevator actually working? Did someone order the bus with the lift? Are services and supports still in place even as everyone’s energy starts to run low, including the people responsible for our kids?
For families like ours, the joy never stops. But neither does the work. All of the excitement lives right alongside the advocacy, the stress, the follow-up emails, and the wondering. And yet — moments like this one? This is my why.
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“Don’t let your child’s diagnosis become your personality”
It is something that is said often, given as advice.
That advice is unrealistic.
Hearing your child’s diagnosis is life altering, it changes everything you thought you knew before you heard those words.
It changes how you view the world and what you once thought was important.
It changes how you carry yourself through unimaginable obstacles.
And it causes you to live in fight mode because flight mode isn’t an option.
That diagnosis,
It made you feel such an indescribable pain that you don’t allow anything less than to break you.
That diagnosis,
It is a part of you.
You couldn’t stop it from changing your personality if you tried.
And you shouldn’t.
That diagnosis made you unstoppable,
It made you love harder than you knew possible,
And it made you strong.
The type of strong you envied in others,
the type of strong you never could have imagined yourself capable of.
That diagnosis,
It made you everything that you needed to be for your child.
So, let it.
Let that diagnosis become a part of your personality.
Because that personality is the one that keeps you going every single day.
Written by: Carla Moore from Payton's Path
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