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Don't think that there's a different, better child 'hiding' behind the autism. This is your child. Love the child in front of you.... →
Sometimes people say that kids with autism aren't capable of love. That's ridiculous. My son loves deeply. He just doesn't communicate... →
For a long time our son was a little boy with autism, which was a certain kind of challenge. Now that he's a teenager with autism - and a... →
Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep... →
When our son's autism was diagnosed at the age of 2, there was no clear prognosis. We didn't even know if he'd ever learn to talk. But we... →
I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions... →
Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant... →
Kids don't talk like adults, but kids on the spectrum don't necessarily fall into the same patterns of speaking or have the same interests as... →
One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.
Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to... →
My son, who's on the spectrum is a very rigid thinker. He needs clear-cut definitions of right and wrong. Anything hazy or gray confuses him. For... →
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