Sho and Patreece Baraka: Raising Kids on the Autism Spectrum
FamilyLife Today®
FamilyLife Network
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Parenting their sons' autism, Sho Baraka and his wife Patreece felt blindsided—including a loss of dreams and sense of failure. On FamilyLife Today, Dave and Ann Wilson talk with the Barakas about how God met them in their shame.
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| 0:00.0 | God answers prayers in ways in which you don't expect them to and I think that's the story of autism too |
| 0:06.0 | It's like autism is a different way of thinking like it's it's not neurotypical |
| 0:10.5 | So they experience the world differently than us |
| 0:13.4 | That's what they let them have high sensitivities to just different things |
| 0:16.6 | They can walk into a room and these lights just may set them off like tapping may set them off |
| 0:21.4 | And so they experience the world differently |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most |
| 0:39.0 | I'm Ann Wilson |
| 0:40.0 | And I'm Dave Wilson and you can find us at FamilyLifeToday.com or on our Family Life app |
| 0:46.0 | This is Family Life |
| 0:48.0 | Today |
| 1:00.0 | So I think every parent when they get pregnant and they're getting ready to deliver their first baby |
| 1:06.0 | And their second or third they pray the same thing |
| 1:09.0 | What are they for? |
| 1:10.0 | A healthy child |
| 1:11.0 | Yeah |
| 1:12.0 | I mean we did |
| 1:13.0 | I'm guessing every parent in the world has always prayed |
| 1:16.0 | I don't care if he looks like this or that but please Lord let him be healthy |
| 1:20.0 | And then you know you bring that little baby into your marriage and you have no idea of the stress |
| 1:26.0 | It's going to be |
| 1:28.0 | Awesome and wonderful but it brings stress and a marriage but then when you if you bring a home a baby |
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