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What other infant animal cannot walk for the first year of life? Human babies have to find someone to attach to within hours of birth or they will not survive.
I have the tendency to wander—nowhere quite so dangerously as in my mind. I can pretend a child’s cry is an intelligent monologue at the same speed I can interpret a hint of color in the sky as a rainbow.
The hardest truth is no parent ever plans for an autistic child in the way most parents prepare to change diapers and teach their child to ride a bike.