01/30/2025
“Don’t let your child’s diagnosis become your personality”
It is something that is said often, given as advice.
That advice is unrealistic.
Hearing your child’s diagnosis is life altering, it changes everything you thought you knew before you heard those words.
It changes how you view the world and what you once thought was important.
It changes how you carry yourself through unimaginable obstacles.
And it causes you to live in fight mode because flight mode isn’t an option.
That diagnosis,
It made you feel such an indescribable pain that you don’t allow anything less than to break you.
That diagnosis,
It is a part of you.
You couldn’t stop it from changing your personality if you tried.
And you shouldn’t.
That diagnosis made you unstoppable,
It made you love harder than you knew possible,
And it made you strong.
The type of strong you envied in others,
the type of strong you never could have imagined yourself capable of.
That diagnosis,
It made you everything that you needed to be for your child.
So, let it.
Let that diagnosis become a part of your personality.
Because that personality is the one that keeps you going every single day.
Written by: Carla Moore from Payton's Path
