This week began with World Autism Awareness Day,
created five years ago by the group Autism Speaks as a locus for
fund-raising and spreading the word. It comes at the start to National Autism Awareness Month, which was created by Congress back in the 1970s. In commemoration of both, HuffPost Parents is looking at autism through the eyes of parents.
Each day we will run an essay about a next stage of parenting a child
with autism, starting with the moment of diagnosis, and going through
school years, and teens, and entry into the adult world.
When my son Ezra was in preschool, teachers told us that he would routinely bump into other children in the classroom. It wasn't intentional. His internal radar failed to detect the boys and girls in his orbit.
So Ezra would go about his odd pursuits--lining up toy dinosaurs in elaborate symmetrical patterns, flipping repeatedly through the same picture books--on his own. Read Here
When my son Ezra was in preschool, teachers told us that he would routinely bump into other children in the classroom. It wasn't intentional. His internal radar failed to detect the boys and girls in his orbit.
So Ezra would go about his odd pursuits--lining up toy dinosaurs in elaborate symmetrical patterns, flipping repeatedly through the same picture books--on his own. Read Here
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