A Question...

[mapsedge]

I have what I recognize as a rhetorical question which occurred to me this morning as I struggled - and failed - to keep my voice level as I spoke to my daughter after she closed the trunk lid on her brother's head. She called out "Move!" as she closed it. He couldn't have avoided it even had he been minded to try*.

If there is a God, and I'm increasingly losing my conviction that there is, and if this Bit of Collective Fiction has in His heart the best interests of His creation, why give an autistic child to a father with anger management issues?

There's a whole lot more brewing in here, but it will keep for now.

* For the record, Jami's fine - he got bumped is all.

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[rhiannontherose.livejournal.com]

Probably for the same reason He gave Vestibular Boy a mobility-impaired mommy. And damned if I know what that is.

::hugs::

I can make guesses, though. Maybe, in Jamie's case, it's so that he can eventually learn to take what control he can of his sensory environment and (finding methods for the) meeting (of) his own sensory needs to cope with/compensate for it, because you CAN'T always be in a sensory environment that caters to you. And maybe, in Katie's case, it is so that she can learn that when your relationships matter, sometimes you have to at least try doing what doesn't come naturally to you, because it's what the other person/people need from you -- and that everybody flubs that sometimes, but not everyone always tries, and that is something about herself that she can control.

::more hugs::

Happy father's day, Bill. You DO deserve it.