What an experience, Do you think it would have been better to be given that difficult news in person vs. over the phone? Thank you for sharing such an important experience in your life. It certainly brought some suspense wondering about the nature of the call, and then leaves me wondering, how are you and your son doing now?
This is a nice writing piece. You brought about a lot of emotion and as a reader I could feel that and wanted to read more as I got toward the end. It also left me wondering of how moving away from friends and family was after hearing that news over the phone.
I get a little bit emotional as I read your writing piece. The moving plus the call gives a new start somewhat a bitter taste. I like the sentence, "Most of the call is a blur," which says a lot. You way of telling this story really makes me want to keep reading!
Thank you so much for sharing this story!! The way you shared such a personal experience really was powerful in speaking to what people go through when faced with life-changing situations. The way you started, writing about something that seems like a big deal - like a move - then said how that wasn't even something you could think about really puts into perspective the even you are writing about!! How did you handle all the things you had going on? I wonder if you could share this piece of writing with parents in your school or other places who are finding out or how children with autism....
Thank you all! I was so nervous about sharing such a personal piece of me. Reading the comments helps me a lot and makes me think about writing more... maybe this becomes my seed? Rae- I had to get the news over the phone because my son was tested in San Diego, and we moved to Vancouver during the 5 long weeks we had to wait for a diagnosis. Allison- I like the idea of writing how getting this news and having no friend or family near affected us. I'm going to write about that too! Ying- Thank you so much. It was so hard to share this, but I'm glad that my emotions came across. Trisha- I don't know how I handled things, but I think that it could become a new writing piece because honestly, I still have to handle things every day and it's been almost 3 years. I've thought about sharing my stories with parents. I'm a sped teacher so I often deal with Autistic students, but never really shared my parent perspective.
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What an experience, Do you think it would have been better to be given that difficult news in person vs. over the phone? Thank you for sharing such an important experience in your life. It certainly brought some suspense wondering about the nature of the call, and then leaves me wondering, how are you and your son doing now?
ReplyDeleteThis is a nice writing piece. You brought about a lot of emotion and as a reader I could feel that and wanted to read more as I got toward the end. It also left me wondering of how moving away from friends and family was after hearing that news over the phone.
ReplyDeleteI get a little bit emotional as I read your writing piece. The moving plus the call gives a new start somewhat a bitter taste. I like the sentence, "Most of the call is a blur," which says a lot. You way of telling this story really makes me want to keep reading!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for sharing this story!! The way you shared such a personal experience really was powerful in speaking to what people go through when faced with life-changing situations. The way you started, writing about something that seems like a big deal - like a move - then said how that wasn't even something you could think about really puts into perspective the even you are writing about!! How did you handle all the things you had going on? I wonder if you could share this piece of writing with parents in your school or other places who are finding out or how children with autism....
ReplyDeleteThank you all! I was so nervous about sharing such a personal piece of me. Reading the comments helps me a lot and makes me think about writing more... maybe this becomes my seed?
ReplyDeleteRae- I had to get the news over the phone because my son was tested in San Diego, and we moved to Vancouver during the 5 long weeks we had to wait for a diagnosis.
Allison- I like the idea of writing how getting this news and having no friend or family near affected us. I'm going to write about that too!
Ying- Thank you so much. It was so hard to share this, but I'm glad that my emotions came across.
Trisha- I don't know how I handled things, but I think that it could become a new writing piece because honestly, I still have to handle things every day and it's been almost 3 years. I've thought about sharing my stories with parents. I'm a sped teacher so I often deal with Autistic students, but never really shared my parent perspective.
Thank you all so much!