Friends

I know everyone probably thinks this, but I really do have the best bunch of friends.  It’s taken until this age to know who my true friends are.  Those I can be totally myself with and tell them anything.  They give the best advice and listen to me when I need it.  Not necessarily to help me, no one can imagine what it is like to be an autism mum until you are one, but just to let me vent and get things off my chest.  You have no idea how much I need that at times.

Friends I would have considered very good friends don’t know about my son.  But why haven’t I told them?

I just can’t do it.

Sometimes it’s on the tip of my tongue to tell someone.  Or I am talking about something and I almost say something that gives the game away and I go into a total panic.

So, know that if you know about my son, that I count you as a special person in my life.