To better understand somebody, don’t just walk a mile in
their shoes… walk three miles by their side.
This was the conclusion I drew last year after participating
in my first Walk Now for Autism Speaks event in Chicago. The event moved me so
greatly and the people touched me so deeply that it literally changed my life
forever.
Autism was no longer a deserted island. There were people
out there that lived it and breathed it every day just like I did. There were
families that looked just like mine walking the path down Chicago’s beautiful
lakefront. Their struggles were our struggles. Autism was not the isolating
sentence I thought my family had received, it was quite the opposite.
