I’m more grateful than I can express to editor Sara Watkins of Spoonie Press (home to the annual online and print publication, Spoonie Journal, and the weekly online Spoonie Magazine) for helping me share my story about raising my gorgeous, extraordinary son, Matthew: To Be the One to Say, “Yes!”
If you’ve followed my work even for a short while, you’ll be acquainted with my poetic accounts of Matthew’s autism. I had to dig deep for this longer-form prose piece. Let me know your impressions and feel free to share a link to this story with anyone out there who you believe could benefit from our experience — your engagement means the world to me!
Congratulations!
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Congratulations on your publication! I just finished reading it. Very eye-opening!
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Thank you for reading, Liz! ❤️
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You’re welcome, Stephanie! I learned a lot from it.
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That’s really wonderful to know!
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Congratulations, Stephanie! She does it all! 🙂
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Thanks, Cate! The “all” I do is in decidedly smaller doses these days…
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Stephanie, this was incredibly enlightening as well as moving. I’m so glad they published it. I found it especially powerful when you spoke of the myopic way everyone focused on Matthew’s ability “to perform socially acceptable behavior” rather than giving him the means to hold a conversation with himself, that “inner stranger”. That completely blew my mind. Congratulations and thank you!
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Sunshine, thank you! Your response to — and takeaway from — our story is *everything*!
🌞🌻🙏💕
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Congratulations, Stephanie!
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