Portrait of my Son as a Five Year Old

I want to remember five years ago, to touch your newborn skin – waxy, translucent. I want to remember the vivid plum blood-test bruises on your tiny heels and feel the way your cry bypassed thought, resounded in my chest. I want to be inside that moment when everything changed. I want to grasp the… Read More

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This is why I keep writing about autism

#Changethetextbooks This is why I continue writing about autism

When you write about a topic to raise awareness, or to champion a cause, it can be hard not to become jaded. It is hard not to feel like you have said everything you can, in hundreds of ways and dozens of times over. How can your voice make a difference, in a space filled… Read More