After overhearing other "well-meaning" parents, a 7-year-old girl with autism asked her mom a devastating question: "Does being autism make me bad?" The pair conversed about Cadence's fears by passing notes while the little girl was huddled under her teacher's desk. Her mother Angela decided to share the powerful exchange along with a moving message.
Cadence's sensory differences means she hears, sees and observes every detail around her — every conversation, every sight, every smell; as many autistic children do. . . . What 'messages' are children hearing — from ourselves, from other parents, at school, from media and in the general community? And what are the 'take home' learnings, spoken or unspoken, they are internalizing from these messages?
