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We Can Spend Years Treating Autism and Miss the Person Who Doesn't Feel Well (opens the original)
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A family asked me about inflammation and autism. It took me back to all the years I spent trying to understand what might be happening anywhere inside Nick’s body—and to something much more basic I wish someone had told me not to lose sight of.<i
The Person Everyone Depends On Cannot Keep Coming Last (opens the original)
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Someone can need you desperately and you can still disappear from your own care.That is the part of Dolly Parton’s story I cannot shake.When her husband, Carl Dean, was sick, she cared for him. After he died, she later acknowledged something caregivers everywhere will recognize:“I didn’t take care of myself. So, I let a lot of things go that I should have been taking care of.”Dolly Parton had resources most caregivers will never have. Money. Staff. Access. Options.And still, somewhere in
We know autistic people and their families are being failed. Why have we learned to live with it? (opens the original)
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For almost 27 years, I have asked questions about autism. Why do parents have to fight so hard? Why does adulthood feel so unplanned? Why are families continually left to figure out what comes next?Those are important questions.But lately I keep coming back to one that makes me much more uncomfortable.We know the problems exist. We know people are being hurt. We have known for decades. So at some point I have to ask: how much do the people being hurt matter to us?Because lack of information can
Autism diagnosis rates rose from 1 in 500 to 1 in 31. Parents are still the infrastructure. (opens the original)
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Facing Time, Part Two: When I Am Gone (opens the original)
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