Sunday, March 22, 2015

Autism Siblings

Something that tends to be overlooked in Ausome families is our "neuro-typical" children.
My oldest is non-verbal, and 2 years older than his younger brother. Caiden has always been Jakes favorite person, even though Caiden has never given him the attention he craves. (Caiden does play with Jake, on his terms) He's always been great with Caiden, every day when Caiden gets home from school he runs to the door and says "Caiden, you're back! I missed you so much!" With a hug, while Caiden ignores him.  Caiden does miss him, and he does love him, Jake knows this, he just shows it in different ways. Caiden let Jake into his world, in ways he has never let anyone else. They are truly best friends.

But these kids are amazing, they get to deal with their siblings needing more care, therapy's, meltdowns, ect. And still love their siblings more than most, understand their siblings in ways no one else does. Even being a single mother, Jake misses out on certain things because it's not safe for caiden, or it's too overwhelming. Jake has even saved caidens life already.

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