Autism: 'I have waited four years to get a kiss from my son. Now he's kissing everyone' [Independent.ie]
- Published: 22 September 2011
Cahir Coyle posd for his school photograph this week, like thousands of other children who have just begun their primary school journey.
For his mum, Kathleen, this annual ritual of the junior Infants' class picture, which will be published in the local newspapers, is an important milestone for her five-year-old son, who has autism.
"Getting the class photo is absolutely fantastic.
"Parents of children with autism feel at times that we are living in a different world, but we have to fit into both worlds.
"We are trying to bring our children with autism into our world, our society, and at the same time there is so much stuff we have to do for them, that other people don't understand.
"The class photo is just a way of getting the two worlds to combine," she explained.
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