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Luke's Best Chance: One Man's Fight for His Autistic Son More than a million children in America are the autism spectrum. What happens when they come of age?

Thanks for sharing. Stories like this remind me of how broad the spectrum is. Although I disagree with the assertion that autism is on the rise due to something other than an increase in diagnosis.

The father sounds really tuned in to his son's bests interests.

I question the article's claim that "40%" of autistic people never learn to speak though. In the far past decades maybe, when you had to be very severely disabled to be diagnosed perhaps that may have been the case.

Much lower figure is considered here:
http://learning.imascientist.org.uk/201 ... not-speak/

The only issue I had was the father blaming autism for the demise of his marriage.

If he had the *average* NT kid, I guessing his marriage would have swirled into the toilet anyway. This job took him away for weeks at a time. It takes a pretty understanding spouse to handle that with no kids. What other s**t storm frolics went on in the marriage, that wasn't disclosed.

Dude, OWN your damn divorce. Your son's autism didn't send it over the cliff, it probably would have happened anyway. I guess autism is a socially acceptable excuse for the divorce. Your son's own story is compelling enough without dragging your drama into the mix. Two sentences could have acknowledge the divorce without publicly placing blame one anyone.

Had he cut out those big chunks of self pity, it would have been a good article.

Rolling Stones..do you have no copy editors anymore? You have so jumped the shark. I get this is a human interest story, but it should be better edited than a Weebly mommy blog.

If his former wife got fed up with their son and decided to divorce him, he's right in blaming his son for the demise of his marriage—no self-pity at all.

I don't consider Rolling Stone as a reliable. Source of journalism.