EP 52.
The epidemiology of autism involves the study of factors arrayed like suns in the code of spectrum. Many lights and no system. During the first five years of our daughter’s life, we spent cumulative months in hospitals, doctor’s offices, emergency rooms, psychiatric wards, therapy clinics, and laboratories. Medical encounters became existential tremors. But the other side of disorder is advocacy, and Disorder 299.0 documents the extreme present of living a life not otherwise specified.
Excerpt:
if poetry were a straight straightforward social action
if base not a part of lovely
if lovely on all sides of seizure
if memoir not memory but tongue of the mind
if development a linear delay
if retardation only late
if healing a normative sabbath
if I lovedog loved East Colfax