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See the person, not the disability

We need to adjust our way of thinking, to end the stigma of disabilities by educating children and adults about the differences individuals have. Recently , my brother turned 18🎊🎉 the legal age. He couldn't stop smiling that day. On the way back home from his school, I was in deep thoughts about his future. 18 is a very big age, close to the BIG 2.0 So, everyone bothers about their future. When I was younger, I thought of being an actress, a singer, a dancer, almost everything in the career book. Ideas were just floating in my head. The thing is that I have no reason to really panick about my future because I know that I have the means of communication to put myself out there to get a job or to get other things on my own. It got me thinking about “If he had the same privileges that we do, maybe it won’t be so hard for them to find a job or even a spouse. As a sibling or a parent to a special person, you find yourself explaining the child's condition to your friends

Helllooooooo!

PARENTS Last time I wrote about how I handled the news of my brother being on the spectrum, possibly telling the other siblings who have special siblings that everything will be okay if they just understand their siblings and try their best to create time for them and appreciate their existence. So today is for the parents and also siblings though. I’m not a parent but I’m at that age to learn things, to accept them. I can tell that I’m probably going to be an extra and dramatic mother🤷 If you have a parent in your life or a parental figure in your life that actually loves you and does everything to make you happy, you’re so lucky. Trust me that they might not show you love the way you want it, but they do. I follow this Instagram platform for Autism parents and the way they talk about them is amazing. There are like super heroes. You can imagine how hard parenting is. How you have to sacrifice your own need for a person. I don’t know how I would handle it but parenthood is someth