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Product: We Walk: Life with Severe Autism (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)
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In this collection of beautiful and raw essays, Amy S. F. Lutz writes openly about her experience—the positive and the negative—as a mother of a now twenty-one-year-old son with severe autism. Lutz's human emotion drives through each page and challenges commonly held ideas that define autism either as a disease or as neurodiversity. We Walk is inspired by her own questions: What is the place of intellectually and developmentally disabled people in society? What responsibilities do we, as citizens and human beings, have to one another? Who should decide for those who cannot decide for themselves? What is the meaning of religion to someone with no abstract language? Exploring these questions, We Walk directly—and humanly—examines social issues such as inclusion, religion, therapeutics, and friendship through the lens of severe autism.

In a world where public perception of autism is largely shaped by the "quirky geniuses" featured on television shows like The Big Bang Theory and The Good Doctor, We Walk demands that we center our debates about this disorder on those who are most affected by its impacts.

Product: The Place of Us: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Courage
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"This book is a wonderful instrument, teaching compassion and humanity...Karen Draper's pain became my pain, her joy my joy." ~We Love Big Books
"Like a friend explaining their story, but also the most beautiful visual description, with imagery and atmosphere to match the emotional rollercoaster." ~ K.C. Finn for Readers' Favorite
The Place of Us is a powerful, loving story that will fill your heart and make your spirit soar! ~ Pat
Karen Draper and her husband are ecstatic to welcome Preston, their first child, into their lives. Joyful anticipation turns to fear when they are told they must prepare to lose him.
When Preston defies the odds, the Draper family enters the world of special needs. A journey where they experience indifference, medical emergencies and uncertainty, all while trying to maintain some sense of normalcy.
As Karen discovers the educational blockades for special needs students, she taps into her intuitive side, discovering how love and courage take mysterious forms, even in the most ordinary of lives.
From the daily grind of balancing caring for a special needs son and a healthy daughter to mystical, angelic appearances, Karen learns about life, death, and the spaces we fill in between.
Told from a mother's perspective, The Place of Us will rearrange your heart and take you to places of hope and healing within yourself.