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Welcome to Raising the Extraordinary. Our hope is you will find this website to be a safe place to navigate your journey as a parent of children with special needs, and help you realize you're not alone.

John, pictured here, has severe autism and is nonverbal, somewhat potty trained, and has major anger / aggression. We also deal with depression, anxiety, ADHD, celiac disease, and type I diabetes in our home. So I guess we have a somewhat unique perspective of parenting children with both "seen" and "unseen" disabilities.

We are not medical professionals, just fellow parents in the trenches embracing the life of raising extraordinary children.

~Sarah & Daniel

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Your blog post beautifully captures the deep and often overlooked isolation experienced…
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With a son who has very little concept of right & wrong,…
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The isolation and loneliness is spot on!!! I had lots of friends…
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Why did they take the children? What was the problem?