I wrote this post a few years ago for a website called Autism Epicenter.  In this season of thanksgiving, I thought it might be nice to repost.  I hope you see it as an encouragement to persevere when times are tough– and to give thanks when thanks is due.

  November 2010–We have been overwhelmingly blessed over the last year or two with reaping the rewards of excruciatingly hard work and perseverance over the previous years.   Our daughter with autism is now 18 years old.  I thought it might be nice to share some of those rewards with you because some are amazing considering where we started.  Here are some of our beginnings, steps and rewards along the way:
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