Joining this Forum and writing about my son seem like the most tangible acts of acceptance I've committed. Though I always knew he was "special," and he's received various diagnosesthroughout the years, deep down I had hoped he was just going through a stage, or that there was something I could do, or not do, to make him "regular." I now surrender those thoughts in the acceptance that this is real and that it's my job as his mother to use every resource I can to help him. I'm glad there are so many resources available, like this Forum, yet I'm also scared because I have so much to learn and I feel so overwhelmed by it all.