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They Don’t See Me: A Mother’s Memoir of Autism
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What If We Stopped Looking Away? What My Autistic Son Taught Me About Seeing People
"Ima’s tenth birthday was approaching. I waited for it with a quiet, fierce gratitude blooming in my heart for my wonderful son—the boy who had completely shattered and beautifully rebuilt my entire worldview. Years ago, I felt the urge to look away from people who were different. It wasn’t out of coldness or arrogance. Not at all. I simply hadn’t known how to look without causing offense, or how
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“He was teaching us to love him not for what he achieved or how well he masked his struggles, but simply because he existed.”
― They Don’t See Me: A Mother’s Memoir of Autism
― They Don’t See Me: A Mother’s Memoir of Autism
“I don’t know what kind of life Ima will live when he grows up, but I believe with all my heart that one day, the shelves of this world will be perfectly organized. Not because it is someone’s grueling duty, but because someone, somewhere, finds absolute joy in putting things back where they belong.”
― They Don’t See Me: A Mother’s Memoir of Autism
― They Don’t See Me: A Mother’s Memoir of Autism
“No, it wasn’t the end of the world. But knowing that you are being systematically erased from the lives of your friends—and worse, your own relatives—simply because your child has special needs, is a pain that guts you out from the inside.”
― They Don’t See Me: A Mother’s Memoir of Autism
― They Don’t See Me: A Mother’s Memoir of Autism
“I accepted that his dream wasn’t smaller—just different and I stopped searching for dreams for him that were bigger than the ones where he felt safe and at peace.”
― They Don’t See Me: A Mother’s Memoir of Autism
― They Don’t See Me: A Mother’s Memoir of Autism
“It wasn’t that his senses were broken. They were simply dialed to a volume the world wasn’t built for.”
― They Don’t See Me: A Mother’s Memoir of Autism
― They Don’t See Me: A Mother’s Memoir of Autism
“Yes, I didn’t have to feel embarrassed anymore. The strangers had stopped looking. But in the heavy quiet of that aisle, I realized that to save my own ego from a few nameless strangers, I had robbed my own child of his purpose.”
― They Don’t See Me: A Mother’s Memoir of Autism
― They Don’t See Me: A Mother’s Memoir of Autism
“I don’t know what kind of life Ima will live when he grows up, but I believe with all my heart that one day, the shelves of this world will be perfectly organized. Not because it is someone’s grueling duty, but because someone, somewhere, finds absolute joy in putting things back where they belong.”
― They Don’t See Me: A Mother’s Memoir of Autism
― They Don’t See Me: A Mother’s Memoir of Autism
“How do you teach caution to a soul that only knows kindness?”
― They Don’t See Me: A Mother’s Memoir of Autism
― They Don’t See Me: A Mother’s Memoir of Autism
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