#352: Her Daughter Had Autism and Just 2 Words… Look at Her Now

It was, um-

And it was also a rough time for you because your husband was a police officer.

Yeah.

So once COVID hit, he had to go to work.

Yeah.

And-

He was gone.

[laughs]

And you didn't have any therapy, no Zoom therapy.

You were unable to take, uh, your two daughters out in the community at all.

Like, I don't e- I think you told me, like, you didn't even leave the house or barely left the house.

No.

I, I, I did not, and, and during this time, I did quit my job teaching because, um, Elena needed so much help and so much care and there was no daycare open.

There was no...

I mean, even if there was daycare open, she had so many challenges.

She would've been kicked out instantly from any daycare based on her behaviors.

[laughs] I mean, it was just...

So I, I quit my job to...

I, I had an infant and I had Elena who-

Right

... you know, had all of these problems.

And I stayed in my house.

[laughs] I, I was just trying to come up with learning activities that I could print from home or order from Amazon, and I, I, it was just-

And then-

... random things