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I am the mother of a 20 year old guy with fairly severe autism, a.k.a Nat, a.k.a Sweet Guy. I believe that what other people may call "denial" of severity is sometimes just the other side of hope. …Continue

Started this discussion. Last reply by Heather M Jan 25, 2010.

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Are you a parent of a child with special needs?: yes

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A Bedtime Story

My usual place for revelations is as I'm falling asleep. A light goes on -- and I don't mean my husband Ned's little book light, even though that definitely goes on every night. Recently I was talking to Ned about how I wished I'd played marbles with Nat (20, autistic) the other day, how great it was that he'd wanted to play both Thursday and Friday. And then Wednesday afternoon, we had done a puzzle together, come to think of it! But instead, yesterday, on Saturday, I was gone for a long time… Continue

Posted on January 15, 2010 at 6:10am