What if you took everything you thought you knew about nonverbal autism and threw it out the window? What if, instead of presuming an intellectual disability, you presume competence? What if you changed your mindset to presume that people with autism are smart and can learn anything; that they see and hear the world around them and absorb information like sponges? What would that look like?
It would look like us. Our family. Right now.
It has been some time since I posted to this blog. As many of you can relate, life just got in the way and writing about it seemed like the last thing I wanted to do. Peter is now almost 15 years old. As Peter got older and taller, his behavior became even more unpredictable and difficult. His frustration kept building, and we felt helpless. We thought we had done all that we could for him and envisioned a somewhat bleak future for him.
Until…
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