The way things work out

Yesterday my cousin appeared in an article in the Daily Telegraph "Health Section" telling of the challenges that he and his wife face raising their autistic daughter Yvette. Andy and I spent a lot of time together when we were kids as our mums who are sisters are very close to each other. It doesn't feel like 30 years since we were playing on beaches together in Cornwall, and we had no ideas of the joys and challenges that lay ahead. The article is well written and worth a read not just because he's my cousin but because it gives quite an insight into autism. (Forgive him for being a former telegraph writer, they were the only broadsheet who would give him a job...