Victoria is a very sensitive young lady. She doesn't like it if I mention to someone she is 'slightly' autistic and she comes into the room and overhears me. I have upset her several times about it. I tell her it is nothing to be ashamed of, but somehow I still feel as if she is upset with me for having mentioned it.
She is a firm believer in Christ as she was raised in church. She met a man there years ago/ when he was a teenager and she was still a little girl; whom she has reconnected with. She is 23 and he is 30 now. He has a slight learning disability and does NOT drive a car. He lives in the next town and Victoria who does DRIVE/ something I never thought she'd do, goes and picks him up every weekend. They are planning on getting married. When; I do not know. But I am proud of her even if I am not her mother. Her mother died in September of this year at the age of 56. It was a shock to everyone. This has been a very hard Holiday season for her as her birthday was also in November. I simply sit and talk to her about what to expect and pray that everything turns out for her.
But I am sure Victoria knows she is different from others. There is no need for me to point it out to her, I am sure other people do that on a daily basis. Which I think is heartbreaking; but she has to learn to stand on her own two feet. All we can do is be there for her if ever she needs us. Amen
God bless you for dealing with your difference. You did not have to tell me as I would never have known. There are imperfections in all of us, if we all just look. There is none of us perfect, and that is what God made us to be. Amen
Please make her aware of it somehow. I didn't find out I was "different" until very late in life. Now I try to catch myself.
Victoria is a very sensitive young lady. She doesn't like it if I mention to someone she is 'slightly' autistic and she comes into the room and overhears me. I have upset her several times about it. I tell her it is nothing to be ashamed of, but somehow I still feel as if she is upset with me for having mentioned it.
She is a firm believer in Christ as she was raised in church. She met a man there years ago/ when he was a teenager and she was still a little girl; whom she has reconnected with. She is 23 and he is 30 now. He has a slight learning disability and does NOT drive a car. He lives in the next town and Victoria who does DRIVE/ something I never thought she'd do, goes and picks him up every weekend. They are planning on getting married. When; I do not know. But I am proud of her even if I am not her mother. Her mother died in September of this year at the age of 56. It was a shock to everyone. This has been a very hard Holiday season for her as her birthday was also in November. I simply sit and talk to her about what to expect and pray that everything turns out for her.
But I am sure Victoria knows she is different from others. There is no need for me to point it out to her, I am sure other people do that on a daily basis. Which I think is heartbreaking; but she has to learn to stand on her own two feet. All we can do is be there for her if ever she needs us. Amen
God bless you for dealing with your difference. You did not have to tell me as I would never have known. There are imperfections in all of us, if we all just look. There is none of us perfect, and that is what God made us to be. Amen