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Making Sense of Death and Autism

November 11, 2010 in Special Needs News by Admin Dawn

It’s been three years since Liane Kupferberg Carter lost her father. While time has dimmed the pain, it hasn’t really helped her explain things to her son, Mickey, who misses his grandfather.

Mickey is 18 and has autism. She has written often on Motherlode of the distinct challenges of parenting an autistic adult. Talking about death, as she writes in a guest blog today, is one of those challenges. Especially when you really don’t understand it yourself.

read more via Making Sense of Death and Autism – NYTimes.com.

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