A Dad's Perspective

Matt Davis blogs about his sixteen year old son Isaac who was diagnosed with autism just after his third birthday.

January, 2018
I can’t overstate how overdue it is. At last, at long, long last, autism is pulling up a chair at the diversity top table; the world has woken up
August, 2017
People. Isaac so often relishes them, yet so rarely relates to them. It’s one of the crueller features ascribed his autism. A skills shortage in handling that pesky, unpredictable
May, 2017
An empty day fills Isaac with the fidgets. A long weekend on the horizon, and his internal mind map mutates into a desolate landscape; where boredom billows and unknowns

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