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Grounded

A Personal Essay

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By: Doreen Oliver
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Grounded is a moving personal essay about autism, race, and the sacrifices mothers make to give their children a chance at a good life, by writer and performance artist Doreen Oliver.

In Grounded, we meet Doreen as she’s struggling with the realization that she’s pregnant, weighing her own dreams and professional ambitions against the life she imagines is necessary to nurture and raise children well. Doreen’s mother was a stay-at-home mom who did everything in her power to ensure her daughters had the same opportunities as the white kids in their New Jersey suburb - opportunities she and her 12 siblings could have never afforded when they were young. Years later, the influence of her mom still looming large as her own children grow up, Doreen begins to see her mother’s choices in a different light with new challenges faced in parenting - particularly with Xavier, who is on the autism spectrum.

A remarkable new voice in nonfiction, Doreen Oliver tells this deeply personal story with compassion and unflinching honesty.

©2021 Doreen Oliver (P)2021 Audible Originals, LLC. Biographies & Memoirs Parenting & Families Relationships Autism Parenting

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Inspiational

Thank you. We have so much in common and so much that is different and out stories align. I'm a mum of autistic children, finding her way back to herself.
Your story had me crying as I reflected on my own relationship with my mother. As you told the story of making playdoh I too thought about how I'm pressured to ‘fix’ my children rather than fix the society they live in.
Your voice is strong, beautiful and you make the world a better place for all of us.
Thank you.

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