People Think Having a Nonverbal Teenager Is the Hardest Age. They Couldn’t Be More Wrong.

People often assume the hardest part of raising a nonverbal child with autism comes during the teenage years, when your child is bigger, stronger, and harder to physically manage. After raising my 15-year-old son Lucas, I can honestly say the years that scared me most came much earlier. This week, I talk about why the uncertainty of ages 5, 6, and 7 weighed on me far more than life with a…