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Autism And Theory Of Relativity

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Autism and Theory Of Relativity I have been thinking recently about grief. You see, I was having a coffee with a fellow experienced mom recently ( a mum to a teenager , diagnosed many years ago) and I happen to tell her  that I grieve everytime  I hear other children talking . I told her that everytime I take my son for a swimming lesson and while waiting for the swimming lesson to end , hearing other kids share their pool experiences , their little jibber jabber gives a strange pang of grief in my heart as my son still struggles to clearly articulate his basic needs.  And then I asked her when does that feeling go away?  she told me - Do you really want to know the truth?  I was all ears and she said this - "while listening to your story I felt grief too . I felt grief that your child could go to a swimming lesson (and shopping and movies) with very less or no fuss. And my child can't even leave the house without a highly trained , physically fit husband😁 . An...