Yesterday, I got kind of an odd phone call. I picked up the phone and a voice asked to speak with me. She said, "I'm calling to follow up on an inquiry you made about continuing your education." I was thinking to myself if I did ask for info, it must have been some time ago. This woman kept persisting for more and more information and then said, "let me put you on hold and you can talk to one of our representatives." I said, "look, even if I did go back to school for an MBA, it wouldn't be for a while." I finally had to hang up on the chick. They really don't take no for an answer. I remember my husband being very concerned about his mom living at her assisted living facility and telemarketers calling and trying to get info out of her, like a social security number. Having the internet full of your information for any random person to look at is kind of scary. My 7 year old is on there because he won a "Diaper Derby" event in Cleveland when he was a baby!! It's good to be hesitant about giving out info. I'll never forget my mom telling me the story of how a photography studio was always bugging her about getting our family to come in for a session until one day they asked my mom how many kids she had and she said something like, "12" even though there was only 3 of us. I don't think they ever called again!
When Dominic was diagnosed with Autism at 2 1/2, I went to our local library and took out every book I could find about Autism. Sometimes I would bring back 20 books. This was 2006, so a lot of the information was very "dated." I guess I was looking for a book that would tell me what I should do next, like a "manual." Autism doesn't quite work that way! The saying is, " if you know one person with Autism, you know one person with Autism." Every mom to an individual with Autism follows their own "path." I think as moms, we judge ourselves much harder than anyone else does. I was 41 when I had Dominic. Did he get the diagnosis of Autism because I was an older mom? because I drank a lot of pop? I could sit and think about that every minute of every day. I am pretty integrated into the Autism community around Lansing and have told more than one person that it took me about two weeks to come to terms with Dominic's diagnosis. It is so incredib...
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