A Dad's Perspective

Matt Davis blogs about his sixteen year old son Isaac who was diagnosed with autism just after his third birthday.

December, 2023
Highgate tube station. For me, it will forever represent the foothills of Isaac’s future. For him, it’s the sunlit uplands. A young man bouncing up the escalators, a dad
April, 2023
Isaac can talk (and talk and talk and talk) for himself. His non-stop, boom-boom delivery conversely grounds him. When his voice levels are up, he’s actually levelling out. Odd
June, 2022
Time was, life with Isaac felt like having the scary multi-shaped components of a gigantic IKEA flatpack kitchen that I needed to construct. Scrolls of instructions and thousands of
August, 2021
“It’s a totally cloudy day, thank you, thank you!!” boomed Isaac, reborn in the middle of the road, arms aloft, awakened by the angels of the gloomy skies. Preaching,

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