I spend a lot of time talking to parents of little kids with autism these days. I tell them what autism means, what kinds of therapy to get, where to get it, and how to pay for it. I hold their hands as they cross the line from normal parenting to autism parenting. They often cry.
Getting an autism diagnosis is scary and upsetting. Everybody knows that autism isn’t good news. Every parent has dreams that their child will be a senator or the CEO of a big corporation. They expect to play with grandchildren and be supported by their children as they age. Autism wipes out those futures. It’s not that the future won’t be great, but it probably won’t be anything like those initial dreams.
Read more at the Great Leap, my autism newsletter
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