Remember how super awesome I told you my little friend, Benny, is? His super awesome Mama Bear is always working to raise autism awareness, to find solutions to her son's immediate needs, and to craft resolutions for the long term future needs of autistic kids who will one day be autistic adults. She also finds ways to keep life fun. She is tireless.
Anyway, she alerted me to a neat post by Diary of a Mom, a blog about fierce love. I don't know about you, but I have so many little friends ages 2-19 who are on the autism spectrum. Reading this recent post from Diary of a Mom helps me understand how scary their world can be and how challenging it is for their parents to create peace in that world.
This world is a community of individuals, all of us with our own range of talents and gifts. A mystery like autism has the potential of being isolating and overwhelming, but Diary of a Mom shows us how the power of one can link to the power of community, creating hope and motion. In short, here's what happened: an old friend reached out to her. He's a politician now. He wants to take action to help our autistic friends and their families. He found his old friend "Diary" online, saw her activism in the universe of autism awareness, and tapped her for the "parental perspective". Click here to see what happened next.
We always say here in The Flamingo Room that we're all in this life thing together. Diary of a Mom shows us that we are many puzzle pieces who can link together to create new pictures, new realities.
And you? What's your puzzle piece like?
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