Growing Pains

It’s hard to see your kids grow up.  It’s what we want to happen, and we work so hard to ensure it happens with as little drama as possible, but sometimes the drama is part of the process. Some people call it growing pains, I call it time for a drink!

I don’t know anyone that feels totally confident when it comes to dating. When the person dating is Autistic, it’s full of uncertainty and all kinds of twists and turns. But oddly enough, it’s also refreshingly simplistic.

Josh hasn’t dated much at all. But when he does, he approaches it the same way he approaches any of his relationships.  He sees the person in front of him without needing to know where they’re from, their last name, what kind of job they have, how they spend their day, or what they are working towards in life. It doesn’t come up. He engages in conversation that are in the moment…only including what may be pertinent to the current experience.

Those of us that don’t have Autism could benefit from that kind of in the moment interaction. To live without the need to find out or describe what we think of as important, and instead, just enjoy the person in front of us, as is.

Ouch! I just had a growing pain.

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