Lorca Damon
"I have always imagined the metaphor of Carrieâ€™s life being similar to her hanging from a cliff. It feels as though Iâ€™m holding her hand as she dangles above certain death and the only thing that will keep her from falling is my ability to hang on. If Iâ€™m too weak and I let go, sheâ€™s gone. And sheâ€™s not able to do her part to help me. Sheâ€™s looking at my struggling face and smiling, but the whole time Iâ€™m screaming at her to hold on, to climb up, to try to reach the branch above her. And she wonâ€™t, because she doesnâ€™t know how. Itâ€™s up to me to save her.",Autism By Hand is the laundry list I wrote for the first eight years of Carrie's life, from diagnosis to preschool to public school. It's about the brutal truth and the absolute love I use to help her navigate our world. It contains no research or theories but it's full of the tools I used to help Carrie live in my universe.
Nonfiction
Autism By Hand