Tzemah Yoreh shares the challenges and joys of parenting his autistic son, in this exclusive essay.
I love my son Elisha to bits, but I don't know if he loves me. There is nothing that I want more in the world than for him to say those words to me—and to mean them.
When Elisha was four, I trained him to say"I love you" as I dropped him off at preschool. With some prompting, he would give me a hug, and say"I love you" in Hebrew. He dutifully repeated those words to me daily in a toneless voice, looking away from me, and then he would go play with his firetrucks.What I have learned from parenting an autistic son
Tzemah Yoreh with his wife and their four children. Yoreh has written an essay about parenting his eight-year-old son, Elisha, who is autistic.Parenting Elisha sometimes requires more guesswork than average. Elisha's vocabulary is limited to simple sentences, usually no more than six or seven words long. These sentences usually convey his immediate needs: eating, the bathroom, sleeping, and rarely anything else.
Stock image of a father holding hands with his son. Tzemah Yoreh writes about the challenges, and joys, of parenting his son Elisha.Usually, though, Elisha is happy or amused when he says this. It is often a conversational catalyst for him, which I love, though these conversations will sometimes consist of me telling him he is not actually sad, and him repeating that he is, and doing this 50 times in a row. He will then laugh as if to say,"Look, I got my father to repeat this 50 times.
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