Making sense of death and autism
by Crystal
I was so moved by a post I read on a New York Times blog that I thought I’d link to it for our Easter Seals and autism blog readers. The post was about a mother trying to explain death to her son, who has autism. Here’s an excerpt:
Months later, as I stowed away Mickey’s summer clothes, I noticed that he had taken all his photos of his grandfather and put them in the closet, facing the back wall. I returned them to his book shelf. A day later, they were back in his closet. I asked him why he had put them there.
“No no no. No talking,” he said.
I understood. It is all I can do, some days, to look at those pictures myself.
The concept of death is such a tough, tough subject. But somehow the way Liane Kupferberg Carter writes about it in this essay is very sweet. After forwarding this story on to our parent liaison staff at Easter Seals DuPage and the Fox Valley Region, I thought, hey, why not share it with you blog readers, too. It’s a subject I think parents would really be interested in reading about.