Author: James Guttman

Father of two children - one non-verbal with autism, one verbal without.

Letting My Son With Autism Build His Own Relationships

It’s why my stomach gets knots. It’s why I come running.

I would be very confused by love of all of this, if only it wasn’t for one thing.

I refuse to leave him sitting in the living room.

A terrible decision for your child might be the perfect one for mine.

Just because I don’t know why he reacts a certain way to something, that doesn’t mean I can’t support him during it.

I watch though the lens of my camera and the lens of my fatherhood and can’t believe what I am seeing.

He’s both the easiest kid to shop for and the hardest kid to shop for.

Getting hurt is easy, not letting it change who you are isn’t.

I never asked her to help “cure” my son’s Autism.

In that hospital bed, the question of whether I would do anything for my kids was real.