What Kind of Autism Does He Have?

Cooper’s disability is invisible until it’s not.

We don’t blend in, Cooper and me.  Not that we ever did, but I’ll admit when he was smaller it was easier. We got by with the grace strangers bestow on energetic toddlers and precocious kindergartners. But thirteen. Well, thirteen is a whole different story.

Thirteen is five feet, four inches tall. Thirteen is size 10 shoes. Thirteen can be mistaken for …