Acceptance is not giving up and turning your back on me because i am a complex soul…it is not what happens after you have fixed me to your liking…..acceptance is loving me as i am today….and letti g me go at my pace….letting me have my routines, my quirks, my hang-ups, not getting mad and treating me like i am having a tantrum when i am melting down because i have just reached my limit. Acceptance is loving me unconditionally. Thank you for writing this!! 🙂 ❤ ❤
Parent A: I love and accept my autistic child just as she is.
Parent B: So you’re just giving up on her?
Acceptance is not giving up.
 Parent A: I love and accept my autistic child just as he is.
Parent B: How can you just do nothing? My son gets at least 30 hours of behavioral therapy a week plus all-day preschool and adaptive sports and OT and PT and . . .
 Acceptance is not doing nothing.
 Parent A: I love and accept my autistic child just as she is.
Parent B: I love and accept my child too! After 5 years of ABA, daily social skills training, and a star-chart-sticker-reward-gummy-bear-timeout-management system validated by an elite team of MIT scientists you can’t tell she’s any different from the other kids in her mainstream class.
 Acceptance is not what happens after you’ve fixed someone to your liking.
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Melissa Fields, Autist 