Today is the thirteenth day of putting Emma on the modified gluten free/casein free diet. She has found a few things she likes to eat, is slowly expanding her choices, but there are only a couple of things she seems happy to eat and many more that she eats begrudgingly. Most of the things I offer, she’ll taste, but will then say, “Now it’s all done. Please Mommy I don’t like that.”
Meanwhile we continue with her studies. I have not seen any noticeable change there.
Parenting a child with autism is like going on a trek in the Himalayas. There are moments when you feel you’re not going to make it, your pack is too heavy, your muscles are tired and sore. You wonder how you’ll take another step, the terrain is too steep and unforgiving. But there are other moments of untold beauty. Moments when you look around and see the mountains stretched out before you, the view so majestic it takes your breath away.
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