Stories By Kimberlee Rutan McCafferty
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Ocean County
/ 7 years agoIn the Moment
As you speedily unwrap and liberate the toy from its imprisoning box your smile bursts forth followed by a deep-throated, fifteen-year-old...
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Brick Life
/ 7 years agoHappy Birthday Boy
Last week you turned fifteen. It happened to be field day at your school, and your smile when you saw me...
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Brick Life
/ 7 years agoThe Space Between
Dear Moms, If you’re reading this in your voluminous amounts of spare time, perhaps your son has just been diagnosed at...
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Brick Life
/ 7 years agoMeet Him Where He Is
Another April 30th, another Autism Awareness Month in the can. I know a lot of people have an issue with this...
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Brick Life
/ 7 years agoThe Other Shoe
His “eees” resound throughout the living room, punctuated by small silences that make me look anxiously toward him and gratefully away...
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Brick Life
/ 7 years agoMake New Friends
Last night I snuck out of my house on a Sunday night, left the kids to my husband, and had a...
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Brick Life
/ 7 years agoJust Get Help
Ah, the silence. It is the first day back after spring break, and I am reveling in the absence of sound,...
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Brick Life
/ 7 years agoWorld Autism Awareness Day
In just a few short weeks it will be fifteen years since my severely autistic son came into the world and...
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Brick Life
/ 7 years agoPractice What You Preach
For the last five months we’ve been watching our severely autistic son have “episodes,” interludes in which he bends over at...
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Brick Life
/ 7 years agoHope Part Two
My heart hears the sounds first. For five months I’ve been longing to hear his vocal stims, that eternal “eeeee” which...