Wednesday, October 5, 2011

The Anti-Romantic Child

An expert on Romantic poetry and therefore primed to view childhood as an artistic Eden, Amy Leal has a nonverbal autistic son.

My children are all, so far, normal in all the key ways. So my experience of parenting is not like Amy Leal's. Or is her experience just an extreme version of what every parent experiences, as our children show themselves to be completely different from whatever we imagined about them before they were born?

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