(This essay appeared Dec. 12, 2011 in The Washington Post.) My son Ezra was 4 or 5 when he began asking people their birthdays. At first it seemed like a typical child’s question. But then months later he would encounter acquaintances — or even whole families — and reel off the birth months with perfect [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2011
A Washington Post Essay: ‘I Just Know’
Posted in Memory, Parenting Tagged autism, calendar, Disney movies, obsessions, Pixar, son, Tom Fields-Meyer 4 Comments
‘I Don’t See People With Disabilities’
I’ve had a busy week. In six days, I’ve visited four cities, with speaking engagements in Oakland, Los Gatos (Calif.), New York, and New Orleans. Travel can be both exhausting and exhilarating: Things happen that just don’t happen at home. On the New York subway, I ran into an old friend who lives in Vermont. [...]
