O Captain My Captain, Autism Is Calling

I wondered if, in 20 years from now when we were both looking at leaving our children behind without us to care and advocate for them, we would be seeing a world where autism had finally been accepted and understood as the catastrophic epidemic that it is, and handled accordingly. Or, if our world would still be pretending autism is some weird, unusual disorder that the boy across the way has, and it doesn't affect us all.

Every single family will have someone in it with autism.

Are we willing to keep this denial up in the face of this awesome reality?

When do we act, if not now?