Blue Houses & Doritos
Thank you so much for visiting the Dylans House page and for taking your time to read my blog. For any of you that follow us on facebook it has always been a passion of mine to write and try to be as real and raw as I can. I think there are so many of us struggling and if my posts can help even one person feel not so isolated than I have succeeded. When I think back on the last 22 years of my life they can only be described as a journey- and not a journey I ever really asked for or wanted to be on. At least I didn’t think I did. Now as I look back I realize that I am the lucky one, I am the blessed one. And this blog is not rainbows and butterflies for sure- it is more about craziness and microwaves on fire. It is about driving on the turnpike naked eating doritos ( Dylan not me, don’t worry) It is more about how we survived even though most of the time we were barely surviving- always feeling like we couldn’t possibly handle one more thing or even one more day. But I hope in these blogs to share the personal real stories and to show the end result. Even though it is never really an end result- there is always something that you just didn’t plan for. Always something that was a great idea until it just wasn’t a great idea. Today I am telling the end of the story at least at this point in time. Today my Dylan lives in a blue house and it is perfect. It has a big front window where he can watch cars go by and it is comfortable. He has a garden even though he hates watering it and he has a deck that he can lay on and do puzzles. He rides his scooter in the basement and he eats at the table even though he wants chips and pizza on the couch (this is only allowed at mom and dad’s house) This blue house where my son lives 8 minutes away from me is why we started our non- profit, Dylan’s House. Because every time I pull in the driveway and see how happy my guy is I remember where we came from. I remember our struggles. I remember the feelings of hopelessness and wondering how I could keep on keeping on. I have a vision of helping families enjoy the life they deserve to live. A life where their teens and young adults navigating autism have what we all want- a home and independence. Because as Dylan says- “ this is where you live buddy, you love Dylans House”
AMY