Elijah's Cup
A Family's Journey into the Community and Culture of High-Functioning Autism and Asperger's Syndrome
Chapter One
Balloon Days
Because of death or in spite of death - I don't
know which - Elijah and I learned about
expansion. These were our balloon days, when
both of us had grief for lost relations.
Temporarily, Elijah had lost me, and I had lost
my three dead ones. On balloon days, you learn
to expand. You fill up the empty space and, in
spite of sadness, discover lofty new dimensions
of the self. But not without pain. As if caught
in a horrifying slow-motion dream, my attempts
to see Elijah were thwarted again and again by
the depleting funerals in Colorado and my
inevitable dips into depression. Elijah,
requiring vigilant routine just to make it
through a day, was pressed to his limits b ... read full excerpt from Elijah's Cup: A Family's Journey into the Community and Culture of High-Functioning Autism And Asperger's Syndrome ebook
