Small Things Count

We’re in the middle of World Autism Awareness Month. It’s a condition that affects not just the children but the adults they grow up to be. We can Google “what is autism,” and that will give us the symptoms, but they’re more varied than that. The main character of the TV program “The Good Doctor” exhibits some symptoms, including savantism, which not all people with autism have. In other words, there’s no single set of symptoms that all have, except for the greatly varying degree of the core symptoms of difficulty socializing and repetitive behaviors. Essentially, these are people, individuals who should be treated as such and not expected to live up to a somewhat nebulous label.