My Au-some Autism Playlist
“Music expresses that which cannot be said, and on which it is impossible to be silent. ” – Victor Hugo We all find ways of coping with the challenges of Spectrum life. I run, I write. I pray a lot. Music is also pretty high on my list. When the love I feel for my children – the joy, the fears, the admiration, the protectiveness – builds up inside me to the point that it is inexpressible with mere words, I turn to music. Maybe it’s a sad song that mirrors my fears, or a rousing anthem that spurs me toward my next goal. Maybe it's one of those angry songs that rails at the inequities in life. But if a song grabs my heart, it's because it has expressed something that mere words cannot. These are those songs – it’s my Au-some Autism Playlist. While they don’t all, word for word, match every emotion I have felt during the past six years since we were diagnosed, they do represent a nice spectrum of feelings that, to me, represe...