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Beyond Labels: A Parent's Journal
They say some children come into the world with their maps already drawn. Mine came as a compass that spins in every direction, in love with North, with South and with everything in between. What is it like to raise a child who feels everything more strongly? It's like learning to hug a lightning bolt.
It means being the shelter of a living spark that pulses, wired straight into the vibrant pulse of the world, and stubbornly refuses to turn to ash. Day by day you learn that your job is not to put out his light so that others can understand him more easily, but to be his anchor when his own intensity overwhelms him. To turn the world's screen down to a lower volume while his heart beats at full.