Deborah Reber Quotes

Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.

Letting go is the hardest part... but you have to look at it through their eyes and realize the pain you caused them is that same pain you feel now.

As you likely know all too well, parenting an atypical kid in a conventional world is an often lonely and difficult journey, with our families

Not only are these differences not going away, but we as a society need the millions of neurodiverse children in the world today, with their powerful gifts, talents, and abilities, to flourish. Because they are the future.

When we voice our reality, educate others, and stand up for what we and our family need from a place of compassion, strength, confidence, and peace, the whole outdated, ineffective, intolerant parenting paradigm that we’ve lived with for decades is going to come tumbling down.

Tricky. The usual parenting approaches simply don’t work for us. Every decision about our child involves just a little more consideration, stress, and anxiety than what other parents might experience. It’s no cakewalk

To be clear, I’m not talking about a handful of kids here. According to the latest estimates, approximately one in five school-aged children is in some way neurologically divergent, meaning that how their brains function is “atypical” from what’s considered “normal.” In reference to this statistic, author John Elder Robison wrote on his Psychology Today blog My Life with Asperger’s, “That makes neurodiversity (in total) more common than being six feet tall, or having red hair.

Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” — Deborah Reber