i'm autistic, and i'm okay with that

what was true was already true. knowing doesn't change anything.

My 19-month-old son was diagnosed with autism a month ago.

It didn’t really come as a shock. He’d had delays since infancy, and the older he got the more obvious they became. He wouldn’t look people in the eye. He didn’t respond to his name. He had almost twenty words at 15 months, then suddenly all but one of them vanished and didn’t come back. He liked…