Copyright 2014 Theresa Harvard Johnson
While many people are celebrating 4th of July, Labor Day, Memorial Day or New Year’s Eve with fireworks, bazookas, gun shots, laser shows and other over stimulating activities, my son JJ is generally up all night vomiting, sweating, shaking in fear and experiencing sheer terror and massive anxiety attacks in the midst of all the “loudness” from festivities in our neighborhood.
Up until our family received the diagnosis of autism concerning him, we were oblivious to its impact and its effects. It is human nature not to concern ourselves with a thing if it doesn’t affect us directly. JJ’s life in God has miraculously changed ours.