TJ’s new thing is fecal smearing. He takes off his diaper and smears shit—walls, curtains, rug, everything. You have no clue what it’s like. You saying TJ and Henry both have autism, they’re the same—it’s offensive to me. You complain that Henry can’t sustain eye contact, can’t read faces, doesn’t have enough friends? You think that’s heartbreaking, and yeah, maybe it is. There’s heartbreak in parenting every day. Kids get teased, break bones, don’t get invited to parties, and when that happens to my girls, of course I feel heartbreak and cry with them. But that normal stuff, that’s nowhere
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