The Autism Chaos !
By Shruti Gupta
Autistic kids' parents experience a whirlwind of emotions like a roller coaster without a warning and a seat belt! They are expected to become wiser, smarter, and more anticipative within a 10-minute chat with the pediatrician that breaks their happy bubble of "normality".
Suddenly a chaotic adrenaline rush begins that makes you want to take him to all the possible therapies that exist - even those we cannot afford and those that are beyond our geographical outreach. We put faith into anything that gives us hope - ranging from your neighborhood pandit to black magic babas.
The most scientific and sound minds go into standby as this chaos consumes every ounce of our 2 am and 2 pm thoughts.
In this chaos, we forget to take a deep breath, appreciate our life, and most importantly appreciate the positive tenets of our children.
This fiasco comes to a marginal halt when we accept that doing our best for the children does not mean "Blitzkrieg "!! It doesn't mean we declare war overnight against our very own existence.
We need to battle our overdriven adrenals to sobre down and spend a sunny afternoon staring at the confines of the sky.
We need to take a break from therapies twice a week to let the child understand his entity in this world.
Dragging them around in buses, metros, and auto rickshaws and rushing their home schedules to hurry up and get up, hurry up and eat, and hurry up and pee only hampers their growth and mindfulness.
So dear parents, we won't reach any greater heights by rushing around all the time! Spent time playing silly games, relishing your cup of coffee, and fighting the chaos with mindfulness and meditation ????
These seem like hyped mechanisms but they actually enable you to relax those nerves and refresh your mind to start another day to battle the autism chaos by embracing it.
