Sunshine boy

In confidence, for my paid subscribers.

Until a few years ago, if you’d asked me what it's like raising disabled kids, I would’ve looked at you funny. I didn't realise I had any. You might wonder how I missed a thing like that. I’ve wondered myself.

It’s embarrassing to say, but for a long time, most of what I thought I knew about autistic people came from Rain Man - a movie I hadn’t actually …