Grammy-nominated country artist AllisonMoorer gets real about the ups and downs of parenting a child who has non-verbal autism. countryartist allisonmoorer autism autismawareness
I had been living in New York City for six months and working at school for students with Autism and related disorders when I heard about Allison Moorer. More accurately, I heard her twangy Alabama drawl as she chatted with her son’s teacher during afternoon pickup. It was a fall afternoon in the midst of after school dismissal and Moorer’s voice rang disparate compared to the usual city cadences that echoed throughout our school building.
B: There is a lot of discussion right now about who can write about and on behalf of non-speaking and autistic folks. How did you navigate writing this book with that in mind and what advice would you have for others concerning this? Let's be honest about what happens emotionally and spiritually in this situation. Being in that situation is just horrific. Because not only do you feel like you have to protect yourself and your child but you're in this dynamic with your child, who you wouldn't hurt for anything. That instinct to protect yourself is hard to honor. I think I called it a mindfuck. And that's what it is, because you kind of are just in this spiral of I don't know what to do.
AM: Every day that I'm away from my son, I feel absolutely torn. I feel it right now in my body, it is in the top of my stomach, right underneath my diaphragm, there is a pain in it does not go away until I'm with him. And I have to live with that because, unfortunately, I had to make the decision to do what I did because John Henry's father insists that he lives in New York City.
John Henry is very open, and very simply put, doesn’t seem to have a whole lot of bias in him. So Kenny Greenberg, who produced the project with me, and I just let ourselves be as free with the music as we felt we wanted to be, which is to say completely! This music has very little to do with anything I’ve done before and in some ways, it feels like I’ve channeled it, which is a highly spiritual thing. It’s reflective of our relationship.
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