He is Cooper

There isn’t a different version of him beneath the surface

When my son Cooper was four years old, he started a preschool for autistic children within the school district.

He had been diagnosed just a month prior with Level Three Severe Nonverbal Autism with a Language Impairment.

Whew, that’s a mouthful even today.

The program was 5 days a week, four hours a day. I wrote pretty extensively about it in my book. …