#3\u2019s ADHD and sensory issues combined this past week in a spectacular meltdown.\u00a0 The noise and commotion of 6 siblings, an out of town house guest, and scores of shrieking friends in the playroom triggered a reaction we haven\u2019t seen in some time.\u00a0 He lashed out at the people he loves, calling them nasty names and locking himself away in his bedroom.<\/p>\n
I ached for him.<\/p>\n
As he curled up next to me on my bed later, he said that the noise and commotion combined into a fog of confusion and he just needed to make it stop.\u00a0 Nothing he did was working until he started hurling insults, and then the noise lessened as the children around him froze into stunned silence.\u00a0 He just needed to escape and didn\u2019t see a way out of the chaos.<\/p>\n
It is easy to forget the burdens he carries. He spends so much of his life looking and acting normal.\u00a0 I often slip into the routine of being his mother and forget the cross that he carries.\u00a0 I lose sight of how hard it is to be him in a world that is loud and confusing and often moves too quickly for him to process.<\/p>\n
The workings of his mind are the cross he has been blessed with.\u00a0 They bring him to create fantastic inventions, but also to an easy overload.\u00a0 God, in His wisdom, did not put him on this road alone.\u00a0 He put his father and me there with him.\u00a0 We are meant to be his Simon of Cyrene.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s our role as the parents of a child with special needs.\u00a0 It is our vocation to help him shoulder his burden, to help him carry that cross, and to walk on to where God intends for him to be.<\/p>\n
In the tearful meltdown last week, I cried with my son and wondered how God could have so burdened this beloved child of mine.\u00a0 How could he have made life so hard for him?\u00a0 He\u2019s so tired of this already and he\u2019s only 11 years old.\u00a0 Then I realized that it was because we, his Simon, were slacking on the job.\u00a0 We have to be more mindful of his burdens.\u00a0 We have to walk more purposefully at his side, put our arms around his shoulders, and lighten his load.\u00a0 It\u2019s almost too much for one small boy to carry some days, but for the three of us together?\u00a0 It becomes a much easier journey.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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