Connie Post: ...that raising a severely autistic child would teach me to live in the present

Nobody Told Me!

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🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

All parents hope to have a child who’s healthy and happy and untouched by developmental disabilities. But what happens when a child has a serious developmental disorder that impairs their ability to communicate and interact? How does that impact the child, the parents and the rest of the family?

For some insight, we turn to our guest, Connie Post, whose adult son, Thomas, has profound autism. Connie is a long-time autism advocate who speaks to Special Needs conferences, colleges and other groups about the challenges of having a child with autism. She’s also an award-winning poet whose book, “And When the Sun Drops”, features Connie’s poems about the feelings she’s experienced as the mother of a 33-year old son who has been in a group home since the age of 6.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.6	I'm Laura Owens.
0:14.6	And I'm Jan Black.
0:15.8	All parents hope to have a child who's healthy and happy and untouched by developmental disabilities. But what
0:21.9	happens when a child has a serious developmental disorder that impairs their ability to communicate
0:26.9	and interact? And how does that impact the child, the parents, and the rest of the family? For some
0:31.8	insight on that, we turn to our guest, Connie Post, whose adult son Thomas, has profound autism.
0:38.8	Connie is a longtime autism advocate who speaks to special needs conferences,
0:43.5	colleges, and other groups about the challenges of having a child with autism.
0:48.2	She's also an award-winning poet whose book, and When the Sun Drops,
0:52.6	features Connie's poems about the feeling she's experienced
0:55.7	as the mother of a 33-year-old son who's been at a group home since the age of six.
1:01.3	Connie, we thank you so much for joining us.
1:03.5	Thank you.
1:04.1	I'm very happy to be here.
1:05.8	Tell us about how you learned Thomas had profound autism.
1:11.4	Well, it's always a development over time.
1:14.8	We thought something might be wrong, and however that means just little milestones not
1:19.2	being met when he was about 15 or 18 months.
1:22.2	But there's always a thing with parents where you don't want to believe that, so you just watch
1:26.7	over time.
1:28.2	We were told it about 18 months that he was enough behind to go into an early intervention program, but they
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