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I go to all the appointments. All the meetings. I sit with the team of inclusion teachers, occupational therapists, doctors, social workers, remedial teachers, and the cab driver that gets him from appointment to appointment, and I push for everything that can be done for my autistic boy. But I will never have a plan that will fix him. Noah is not something to be fixed. And our life will never be normal. And people always say, oh well what__ normal, there__ no such thing really, and I say _ sure there is_there__ a spectrum_ and there__ lots and lots of possibilities within that spectrum, and trust me buddy, ducks on the moon ain__ one of them_.but _.In this abnormal life, I get to live with a pirate, and a bird fancier, and an ogre, and a hedgehog, and many many superheroes, and aliens and monsters _ and an angel. I get to go to infinity and beyond.
Kelley Jo Burke Ducks on the Moon: A Parent Meets Autism
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I go to all the appointments. All the meetings. I sit with the team of inclusion teachers, occupational therapists, doctors, social workers, remedial teachers, and the cab driver that gets him from appointment to appointment, and I push for everything that can be done for my autistic boy. But I will never have a plan that will fix him. Noah is not something to be fixed. And our life will never be normal. And people always say, oh well what__ normal, there__ no such thing really, and I say _ sure there is_there__ a spectrum_ and there__ lots and lots of possibilities within that spectrum, and trust me buddy, ducks on the moon ain__ one of them_.but _.In this abnormal life, I get to live with a pirate, and a bird fancier, and an ogre, and a hedgehog, and many many superheroes, and aliens and monsters _ and an angel. I get to go to infinity and beyond.
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