Raising Asperger's Kids: Songs of Our Life

Friday, September 21, 2012

Songs of Our Life

Songs that remind me of my life...

Born in the Bronx....

I spent formative years in Memphis...

Grew up in New Jersey and went to college in the age of Bruce....

Back in New York....looking toward the next half of my century.....

The decades of my young adulthood were full of challenges no person dreams of or even thinks about when you embark on your life's journey. All I can hope is that I did my best for those around me. Not sure where the next decades will take me or take my family. I know that in the end my wishes for myself (and my family) all have changed. I once wanted money, recognition and fame. Today all I wish for is contentment and peace. OK money would be good too...yes I know money can't buy happiness, but it would buy peace of mind that the boys are taken care of....something to be said for that isn't there?

Until next time,

Elise

1 comment:

KristySeptember 22, 2012 at 4:02 AM
I feel the same way. Peace and contentment and enough money that I don't have to worry. Growing older changes ones perspective on things. Just like you, my fiance was born in the Bronx. Then his family moved to N. Jersey when he was 12 and he went to college there. Then he moved to Nashville after college. Funny! You guys have followed some of the same paths. He's not Jewish though, he's Irish Catholic. My first husband was Jewish.
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Welcome to my blog. I am the mother of two children with asperger's syndrome. The oldest in fact was diagnosed with PDD-NOS at the age of five. He is now a college graduate and will be starting a masters program Fall 2013. His younger brother is a college junior. It has been a long road and not so easy all the time. But I never gave up and I never will until my boys have the future of their choosing.

I will be writing updates on situations answering the age-old questions of "who, what, where, when and how" they have been handled. I may even tell a funny or two. I am not a professional. I am a parent writing about my adventures in raising two very different boys on the autism spectrum. I sincerely hope that something I pen here helps those who visit. If you have a question don't be afraid to ask.

But if you are looking for quick answers, a magic pill or someone to tell you its all the other guys responsibility, you will not find that here. You will not find woe-is-me parenting either. What you will find here is a shoulder, a support system and a look at the practical realities of raising a child on the autism spectrum and integrating them into the real world.

Remember not to project what will be, take each day, each moment, in its own time; then one day you will look back and see just how far your child has come.

Elise Ronan
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For those who are new to this blog below are the acronyms and who they belong to:

WoS aka hubby: Wise Old Sage. Name given to the husband by the boys..as opposed to me whom they just refer to as a pain in the tuchas

HSB aka highschoolboy: my younger son who is now a high school graduate.

CM1 aka collegeman: this is a moniker for my oldest who is a college graduate. We are calling him collegeman1 because his brother is collegeman2. However, CM1 is starting a masters graduate program this fall and will now, from 5/18/13, be referred to as Mr. GS or Mr. Graduate Student.

CM2 aka HSB: formerly highschoolboy who is now a college junior. He is known as collegeman2. But don't tell him, he thinks nicknaming him collegeman is idiotic, sophomoric and just plain dumb. So we will keep this just between us.