Schooled in Autism
How My 11-year-old Autistic Daughter Pushes Me to Do Better
4 min readAug 14, 2019
Tomorrow my 11-year-old girl starts fifth grade. Like many parents, I find myself wondering how time has gone by so fast that I have a child starting what at our small public charter school is pretty much Middle School. But even more, because my fifth grader is autistic, I find myself wondering what her school year will look like.