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description: I have always imagined the metaphor of Carries life being similar to her hanging from a cliff. It feels as though Im holding her hand as she dangles above certain death and the only thing that will keep her from falling is my ability to hang on. If Im too weak and I let go shes gone. And shes not able to do her part to help me. Shes looking at my struggling face and smiling but the whole time Im screaming at her to hold on to climb up to try to reach the branch above her. And she wont because she doesnt know how. Its up to me to save her.Autism By Hand is the laundry list I wrote for the first eight years of Carrie's life from diagnosis to preschool to public school. It's about the brutal truth and the absolute love I use to help her navigate our world. It contains no research or theories but it's full of the tools I used to help Carrie live in my universe.
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title: Autism By Hand
publisher: LorcaDamon