College Admissions Essay: Being A Special Needs Mother

Being a special needs mother isn't the best thing in the world as propagated by many but it's not the worst either. It's somewhere in the middle! Like that tiny sole boat which keeps bobbing because of constant ocean currents or high tides. The bad days seem like you’d be eaten alive by giant waves, but good days can feel like a calm vacation, although they don’t last as long. The challenges are mostly because of the unfamiliarity of the sea and once that is learned, things become better but never predictable, because the ocean, as we all know, has a mind of its own and has the capacity to jolt the best of the boats. In some senses, being a special needs parent seems like being the captain of this tiny little boat!

My last few years have …show more content…
By giving me this girl that I was crying for having special needs, the universe, in reality is conspiring me to become the best version of myself, just like it had done to many before me. There were tons of testimonials I was reading everyday in blogs, online forums and groups. I was ready! Ready to be transformed! For a little while, I thought I did become a better person but at every road block I kept coming back to who I inherently was. A practical, emotional, over analytical, cynical, self-centred woman who had certain idiosyncrasies and I couldn't change …show more content…
When parent form a hierarchy even in the special needs community based on either the 'high-functioning' 'social strata' 'educability' or 'perceived knowledge' then it reminds me of 'human limitations' and 'human flaws' and not the ‘unconditional love’ and ‘happiness’, the most used words in all our