Ready to Run

Laura J. Murphy, MFA, MEd
4 min readFeb 5, 2019

I’m that mom who didn’t know.

Our daughter was diagnosed in 2017. I spent the first few months questioning everything. My husband says that I spent the first three years in denial. And maybe I did but I just wasn’t aware I was doing it.

Looking back, I remember when she was a year old and we joined Gymboree. That was going to be where to meet other parents and have her socialize.

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Laura J. Murphy, MFA, MEd

writer, educator, instructional designer, parent to a child with autism, advocate, disrupter, civil rights activist