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September 11, 2018Doctors, History1 Comment

We spent years chasing zebras. Are you familiar with the expression? If you hear a horse, you should look for a horse—not a zebra. Don’t start with the exotic. Eventually, you rule out all of the horses and you have to start looking for something a little less common. Looking back at all of the …
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From the moment he was born we knew that raising Yoshi* was going to be a challenge. We couldn’t even name him. In the hospital he was known as The Ice Cream Man, courtesy of his big brother, before we settled on something that wasn’t quite so limiting in career choices. Today everyone “knows” that he is autistic but most people are missing the rest of the story. It’s so much more than just ice cream and autism.

As many as 1 in 59 children are being diagnosed on the spectrum today, and yet sometimes it feels like no one understands what you’re going through. It can be a very lonely experience and I would love to be here with you.

*We did not go from The Ice Cream Man to Yoshi. We let him pick his own pseudonym for this blog.