Carol Jean Whittington
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890 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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But as we were getting the results from my son and they were telling me, you know, yes he is autistic and these are the things that he's he's gonna need additional help with and occupational therapy and and things like that.
And he looks at me over his little half glasses, salt and pepper hair and his little sport coat and he says, You know you are missed.
And in my very literal thinking brain, I said, No, I wasn't.
I'm right here.
Nobody missed me.
He just kinda smiled and nodded his head and he says, You need to come back and see me
And so he goes on about the business and goes for about ten more minutes.
And all of a sudden the penny dropped and I stopped and I looked at him.
I said, Wait a minute, are you saying I'm autistic?
And he said.
See the receptionist on the way out.
I can't see.
And so in a lot of ways
I it like Becca said, she'd been telling the world like I told you so.
And for me it was
I had lived and had agreed to and had taken on the identity that I was just a failed human.
So the possibility of there being something.
that answered why life had been so hard did not come into my purview for until someone said, Hey, you know you were missed.
And that changed my life.
But instead of embracing that and going, let me figure what out what this is, as the mom in that situation, my approach was
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