Our 14 year old son, Noah, was diagnosed with autism 11 years ago right before his third birthday. Noah has been a trooper through his entire journey with autism. Recently our two year old, Niles, has been showing a lot of the red flags for autism. We are currently working with early on to get him evaluated. So one night a few weeks ago we were explaining to our children that we think that Niles may have autism like Noah and that he needs us to be extra thoughtful and understanding to him. Noah goes over to Niles and puts his arm around him and says "awww, it's okay. It will be hard at first but you will get used to it and learn how to control yourself" Watching the two of them interact like that brought tears to my eyes and the fact that Noah was offering such wonderful words of wisdom to his brother. I am happy that if Niles has to be autistic he has such a wonderful brother to look up to for advice and support and even if nobody else understands them completely, they will have each other.

Heather
Battle Creek, MI