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My Daughter and I Were Diagnosed with Autism on the Same Day

November 3, 2019 by jmalia Leave a Comment

The New York Times

By Jen Malia

October 15, 2019

“I knew then that if I couldn’t persuade my husband of five years to accept my daughter’s autism and my own, it would ruin our marriage and tear our family apart. Autism wasn’t just a medical diagnosis; it was part of our identities. To reject our autism was to reject us.”

Read the full essay on the New York Times website here.

Filed Under: Essays Tagged With: autism, diagnosis, gender

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