The most painful moments of 2023 for my autistic child were the repeated meetings with a woman with mental disorders and also an alcoholic. It took us months to deal with the situation.

The brain of an autistic child perceives reality differently, and in situations of emotional crisis, decisions must be carefully chosen.Photo: Shutterstock

I will introduce you to the character of Donna Pazza a little later, but for now I want to talk in detail about the context in which David met him. This is a real story about autism, about fear, about unpredictable connections that can arise in the mind of a child with such a diagnosis, and above all about how difficult it is to find a solution to get him out of the house when his heart stops, to explode when he sees a certain man.

David’s autism, which reached the age of 17, went through several stages: a stage where he didn’t go shopping, when all he liked were washing machines, he was afraid of roosters, he only ate empty bread, he didn’t sleep at night. , he did not bathe than at home. And much, much more. Life has shown me that everything passes, that everything can be solved, that the challenges of autism never end, only new ones appear. Adolescence is probably the most challenging time for an autistic child, and fear of people was one of them.

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