HBO's 'Autism: The Sequel' executive producer shares how her son's journey can be an inspiration to others at an uncertain time
, I sit in my quarantined household with a sense of hope amid a worldwide pandemic that has us all in an equally uncertain state. The 40-minute short is a follow-up to HBO's 2007 documentary. While the original followed five kids of different ages for a year as they created, rehearsed and ultimately performed a musical theater production, the update revisits them more than a decade later.
It's important to note that not every young adult on the autism spectrum is having the same experience as our five. There is no "same experience" in the world of autism, and the families that we documented in both movies had access to resources and the time to pursue those measures. Both are hardly the norm.
On the flip side, the sequestering of family members has also delivered surprising gifts. My own son, a high-functioning Asperger's guy, uses his imagination and creativity to dress up as a knight in medieval garb and read bedtime stories to our littlest family members, complete with the appropriate accent.
The stories of our children and spectrum parents are so relative to our current landscape. It's an unfair comparison to be sure but as our nation perseveres and unites against a terrifying pandemic, it's important to remember that miracles can happen and there is never an absolute when it comes to our future. There is no crystal ball in life that will tell us exactly what any journey will look like.
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