Recovered: Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back

Bonnie:
I was told by another doctor to take him home and make him comfortable. Put him in a special education class in a public school and to not be stressed out about anything because there wasn't that much I could do.

Bryce:
We were told... just love him but... there's a 50% chance that he won't be able to talk at all, but if he does talk he will only be able to make simple desire requests...and probably by the time he was ten he'd be in a home.

Mary Jane:
The neurologist who diagnosed Ruffin was very clear and very blunt with me. He told me that it was possible or likely that Ruffin would never be employed, that he would never work productively, that he would not know that I loved him, nor would he love me, nor would he be likely to marry, and that if I had money I should probably invest it because I would need it to be able to care for him lifetime.

Nancy:
Her pediatrician, he told me over the phone, that I should just put her in an institution.

Nick:
It would just be good I think, if there's a way, if we could, if we could all be normal.

Bonnie:
Doreen told me that he would recover. And Doreen told me he would go to regular kindergarten.