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Wonderful, whose wine collection she<br />
maintains, and many other prominent<br />
business owners in Boston.<br />
Parziale also provides a unique service<br />
for special-needs families, helping<br />
them create and maintain binders with<br />
educational materials and medical<br />
records and bills.<br />
“I discount my rate to autism families<br />
because I am also an autism mom,”<br />
Parziale said. “The paperwork with having<br />
a special-needs child is voluminous<br />
and it really needs to be pretty much in<br />
one spot.”<br />
She said that tracking all of the<br />
paperwork can be overwhelming even<br />
for her because new documents come in<br />
constantly and very fast.<br />
“(I) really like to help as many families<br />
as I can,” Parziale said.<br />
Parziale loves her job. She loves<br />
when people tell her that they don’t<br />
even miss their old clothes and can now<br />
walk into their closet and see everything<br />
that they own.<br />
And she advises that people talk to a<br />
few organizers before committing to one.<br />
“Make sure that they’re a good fit<br />
because you will be working closely with<br />
these people,” said Parziale.<br />
Parziale credits advocating for her<br />
daughter helped motivate her career<br />
choice. Jenna was diagnosed with autism<br />
at 2 years old.<br />
She didn’t know much about autism,<br />
except for what was shown in the movie,<br />
"Rain Man." But Jenna did not behave<br />
like Dustin Hoffman’s character,<br />
Raymond.<br />
“I didn’t realize it was this huge<br />
spectrum,” said Parziale. “They say, if<br />
you met one person with autism, you<br />
met one person with autism. I always<br />
would tell everybody they are like snowflakes.<br />
They’re all the same, but they’re<br />
all different.”<br />
Parziale and her husband, Jonathan,<br />
immediately started to look at services,<br />
including a speech specialist and physical<br />
therapist, but there was a shortage of<br />
information as social media was not as big<br />
16 years ago. Someone recommended they<br />
look into the Autism Support Center.<br />
“They had weekly meetings and I<br />
met some really great mothers who just<br />
pointed me in the right direction of<br />
services, where I could go,” said Parziale.<br />
Eventually, she started the Boston<br />
autism moms/dads Facebook group be-<br />
PARZIALE, continued on page 40<br />
Professional organizer Susan Parziale uses<br />
white dishes to keep her cabinet looking tidy.<br />
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