[Adta] An Idea

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Hi Suzy,
It's a wonderful piece that I have kept in my files for years. If I find 
it, I will send you the author's name. If I recall correctly, it was 
part of a discussion I was folloing a number of years ago on a list 
serve for families with autistic children. I am pretty sure that I made 
a copy for a student last sumer. The challenge will be finding the time 
to look for it.
Dani Fraenkel
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Suzy Matheson wrote:

> Lori,
> I was given this not too long ago- I am passing on to you in hopes 
> that it might help with brainstorming for an experiential. I plan to 
> read at my upcoming workshop for dance teachers, studio owners, 
> creative arts therapists, etc... right before we do the Dancing on 
> Wheels session. www.adaptivedance.org
>
> -Suzy Rossol Matheson. MA, ADTA, NCC
>
> Holland
>
> I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a 
> disability--to try to help people who have not shared that unique 
> experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feels. It's like 
> this......
>
> When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous 
> trip--to Italy. You buy a bunch of guidebooks and make your wonderful 
> plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. 
> You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.
>
> After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack 
> your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The 
> flight attendant comes and says, "Welcome to Holland!"
> "Holland?" you say. "What do you mean, Holland?" "I signed up for 
> Italy!" "I am suppose to be in Italy." All my life I've dreamed of 
> going to Italy.
>
> But there has been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in 
> Holland and there you must stay.
> The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, 
> disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's 
> just a different place.
> So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole 
> new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would 
> have never met.
> It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy 
> than Italy. But after you've been there a while and you catch your 
> breath, you look around and you begin to notice that Holland has 
> windmills, Holland has tulips, Holland even has Rembrandts.
>
> But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy, and they're 
> all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the 
> rest of your life, you will say, "Yes, that's where I was suppose to 
> go. That's what I had planned"
> And the pain of that will never, ever, ever go away because the loss 
> of that dream is a very significant loss.
>
> But if you spend your life mourning that fact that you didn’t get to 
> Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very 
> lovely things about Holland.
>
> -Author unknown
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> Suzy Rossol Matheson
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