A Tribute to Dad: We Didn’t Know About Autism

When I found out about neurodiversity, everything changed

Photo by Derek Thomson on Unsplash

Dad, my sister, and I were marooned that first Christmas after my mother died. It didn’t matter that at 48, I was the youngest of us — Mom was gone, and we had no ballast. It would be another two years before I unpacked the story of that holiday, when I got involved with someone who had…