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My son is on to a happy beginning (extract)

By MARTI LEIMBACH

From Volume 4 Number 3

MARTI LEIMBACH, author of the international bestseller, Dying Young, and now Daniel Isn't Talking, a novel about autism, wrote this article for LOOKING UP about life with her own autistic son

The first signs of my son's autism were not in him, but in me.  I felt anxious in a non-specific but constant way about him. At two years old Nicholas would not respond to his name. I thought he might be deaf so I took him to a consultant who promised that his hearing was normal.  He could not talk so we went to a different consultant who assured me he would speak when he was ready.  At the GP's, I was told there was nothing wrong with my son - it was me. I was too anxious ...

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