Three Times The Love: Finding Answers and Hope for Our Triplets with Autism
By Lynn and Randy Gaston
Lynn and Randy Gaston longed to have children of their own. After many years of trying they were blessed to find out that they were expecting triplets. Lynn had a highly monitored pregnancy and delivered the boys via C-section at 35 weeks after Lynn went into labor. Once they had all three boys home the delightfully settled as parents and as a family.
When the boys turned 18 months old Lynn, who was home with them all day every day, started to notice that they weren’t developing “normally”. This was just the start of the long road that Lynn and Randy went down trying to find out what was wrong with their boys and to find them the help they both knew the three of them desperately needed.
Their journey included years of doctors, a misdiagnoses of mental retardation for two of the boys by their local school district, hiring their own therapists, having to sell their home in order to afford the therapies, and finally moving to a new school district. When the boys turned 4 they finally got the diagnoses that Lynn has suspected all along. Autism. All three. All three at a different level on the spectrum.
Their heartbreaking yet heartwarming story of hope is one that every parent going through or gone through the struggle of getting their child the help needed can relate to. But yet it is more than that. The determination and love that these two people have not only for their boys but for each other is outstanding. In a world where the divorce rate is 80-85% they are dedicated to do whatever necessary for their children and to do it together.
At the end of the book Lynn and Randy have a resource list for you to check out.
I was unable to put this book down until I read it cover to cover. I also went through a box of tissues. I think every ASD parent must read this book. Two thumbs up! And all ten toes!
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