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There are many events or changes that divide my life into sections - before and after high school or college, before and after marriage or becoming a mother. But the one that most defines the eras of my life has to be before and after Luke's diagnosis.
The changes didn't necessarily happen instantaneously, and in fact some shifts in our life began gradually before we had any notion of his autism. But I will always see my life in terms of Before and After. Where we live, how we live from day to day, our home and our possessions, are all deeply affected by Luke's autism. I'm not going to stick a label on it and call it either Good or Bad. As with most things, it's a complicated mix of positive, negative and indifferent, and there's no point in trying to pull out and identify every individual strand.
But ( here )
The changes didn't necessarily happen instantaneously, and in fact some shifts in our life began gradually before we had any notion of his autism. But I will always see my life in terms of Before and After. Where we live, how we live from day to day, our home and our possessions, are all deeply affected by Luke's autism. I'm not going to stick a label on it and call it either Good or Bad. As with most things, it's a complicated mix of positive, negative and indifferent, and there's no point in trying to pull out and identify every individual strand.
But ( here )
