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Boy Oh Boy: Logical Family Planning
My six-year-old autistic son went up to my wife the other day with a concerned look on his face. He told her that one day he will get married. It’s what happens. That’s life. But there’s a problem,...
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The Bad News Osos
“The Bad News Bears” was a favorite movie of mine as a kid I loved it. I wanted to ride a motorcycle like troublemaker Kelly Leak and take on the whole sixth grade like Tanner. And it made me play...
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Bilingual Autism
My seven-year-old son has a speech disability as well as mild autism. This means that he has to work doubly hard to acquire sounds that come easily to most children, a task made harder still because...
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Bend It Like Messi
I took my son to buy football trainers. That’s what he wanted, like all the other boys at his school, most of them mad about football. This is Argentina, where every kid wants to be the next Lionel...
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The Back of the Bus Kids
I took the bus with my nine-year-old son, who is mildly autistic, and we sat in the back. I thought, hey, we’re back-of-the-bus kids, the cool lot. He smiled, bounced a couple of times in his seat,...
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The Sand is Whiter…
My three children were bickering on a sunny morning at our house near the beach in Pinamar, Argentina. It was a sibling sort of argument. I didn’t ask for details. I just said, “Hey, what’s the...
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Literal Minds
My family was without a car for nearly a month, so the five of us went everywhere on foot or public transport, sometimes by bike. One night, I rode the nine blocks to fetch my son from speech therapy...
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Pride Isn’t that Bad
My son went the other day to Explorer Scouts. A friend invited him, and so I took him on a Saturday afternoon and left him to it without worrying about what the 15 or so kids in his group could say...
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My Son’s Got Talent (and Autism)
We went to a meeting about a scholarship program for our son. It would cover the costs of a private secondary school – books, supplies, tuition and all, and also provide tutoring, even an extensive...
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My Super Star
When you have a son with autism, you can be sensitive to what others think about him. I can be. The other night we were watching Argentina-Peru at a friend’s house, and my 12-year-old was doing a...
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