Normality?

I’ve been thinking lots about how families cope when the challenges they face will not be going away.

They come upon them and become normality.

You grieve the life you thought you had.
You are desperate for solutions but so many barriers stand in your way.

How do you cope when you have to re-build what “normal” is?

We all had babies. Fresh and new. We all had dreams of what family life would be like.

How do you manage when your normal is exhaustion, sadness, being attacked by your child, a child who never leaves their room, hurts others, can’t focus or play, doesn’t have friends?

I found this article and I hope to find more, because I don’t have the answer but I want us to work as a tribe to find some;

Step 1- Find the courage to face reality.

Step 2-Think about what small things could change in your life.

Step 3-Realise your problems are never going away.

“A life with no setbacks would be a life with no meaning or purpose”.

Does anyone have any advice for others as to how they came to terms with the reality of having a child who has SEND?

I’m not saying there is any difference in the joy you get from your child, but from what I see there is a level of hard work and struggle that others will not know.