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What my dad never knew about having an autistic son

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To a son, his father is larger than life — the man with all the answers, the hero. Mine certainly is.

But while writing a book about my father, I learned the truth: My hero was scared. 

Starting when I was young, my father felt alone and unsure of what to do, certain the world had turned against his son and that he was the only thing standing between his little boy and ruin.

The man I celebrated every Father’s Day felt completely alone.

He wasn’t. Last fall I wrote “Born Lucky: A Dedicated Father, a Grateful Son and My Journey with Autism” as a love letter to one man; what came back to me was an army.

“I’ve felt so lost for so long,” a father in Massachusetts wrote to me — he is his autistic son’s only friend, certain no one else on Earth was feeling the same.

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