A Personal Perspective: The biggest triumph for my autistic son and me was that we had real fun together—not just the maternal kind of fun where you feel happy because they’re happy.
To me, late summer means amusement parks and fairs. My passion for rides and cotton candy stretches back to my earliestdays, when my parents took me to Old McDonald’s Farm for my fourth birthday. Old McDonald’s was a tiny park that may have had only one or two rides, but to me it was magical.
But the biggest triumph was that we had real fun together—not the maternal kind of fun where you feel happy because they’re happy. This was a muscular, deep-in-the-belly fun, and we were both equally ecstatic to be there. Until one day when a miracle happened: Nat’s group home was going to Six Flags and they invited us to come along. It took a lot of haranguing and begging, but my husband finally agreed to go, too. After all, he loves to visit the group home because the staff and Nat’s housemates are so welcoming. And so, off we went, arranging to meet them there at lunchtime.
After our long wait, we managed to get a car that fit all six of us. Nat and I sat together—it was almost too small for both of us. But we squeezed in and after I checked our seatbelts and the protective padded metal arm five to ten times, we were ready.
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