![]() ![]() ![]() I was picking him up for his routine first-weekend-of–the-month visit home, an hour north near Matthew has autism and lives at Camphill California, a community for individuals with intellectual disabilities. Even though it was a cold and drizzly February day, Matthew was wearing his favorite outfit: white socks and sandals, shorts and a Roy Orbison T-shirt. “You said you would be here at 12 noon, and it’sġ2:11 already,” he huffed. When I pulled into the parking lot of my 23-year-old son’s home near Santa Cruz, Calif., he was standing there with his head cocked impatiently. In a guest blog today, Laura Shumaker, author of “A Regular Guy:Growing Up With Autism,” describes one weekend with her grown son Matthew, navigating the changing rules one interaction at a time. Parents of autistic adults, a role that is less defined and less discussed. ![]() But children grow, and the parents of autistic children become When we talk about autism (which we are doing often during Autism Awareness Month), we tend to talk about children and ways that their parents can help. ![]()
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