(Editor’s Note: GCV’s Outgoing Rounds From the Edge of Madness is very raw and might trigger trauma survivors—typo on the title. I’m moving people, work with me!)
As my marriage fell apart, my ex began speaking truths I wasn’t ready to hear. She’s a wonderful woman and a fantastic mother, but as we began to clash more, she turned to me one day and said, “Maybe you’re autistic?”
I had never thought of that. Ever.
I’m an accomplished man, but I’m nobody’s hero. That’s what Hollywood sells at stores. Like all of us, I’m a flawed and fallen man.
Yet, despite having an autistic daughter, I had never really researched her diagnosis to understand it truly.
I’m not proud of that.
Unfortunately, as they often say, the war is a cruel mistress.
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