His Spectrum is His Color
“When the professionals first told me about autism, they described it to me as a spectrum. When I pictured that spectrum, the one they described to me, I imagined a long line drawn with a thick black sharpie across a white wall, down an endless hallway.
I hated the black and white and the dark, sad, clinical parts of autism. I hated straight lines too. So I started thinking of my son and his autism as a spectrum of color, like I did in the beginning, before the fear and worry consumed me.
A huge circle full of bright colors.
Think of the happy reds and oranges on the trees in the fall, and the sometimes ominous teals and blues of the ocean, and the yellows in a field of flowers.
Cooper had dashes of all of them. Some harder. Some scarier. Some easier and happier.
And they were all mixed together on his palette that he paints the world with.
His spectrum is his color. And his autism is where the light shines through.” An excerpt from chapter 8 from Forever Boy written by Kate Swenson of Finding Cooper’s Voice.
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