978-1572305441

188 A MIND APART
In a sense all children with autism come from an orphanage, because
they are foreign to us. The choice Marianne and Greg had to make
in that apartment in Bucharest, all parents have to make when they decide
to accept the inevitability of the diagnosis, when they realize that
their future will not be what they planned, when they give up searching
for a cause, when they stop searching for the perfect cure. Each of those
moments is a defining act; it takes courage and the capacity to laugh at
the irony of the presumption that plans can be made, that life follows a
predictable course like a river, that it has a direction and a meaning,
other than the one of getting through this day to the next, of getting
Sophie off to school in a good mood.