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The life of a sibling with autism

Jennifer Durward,

APRN, PMHNP-BC

Northern Montana Medical Group-Specialty Medical Center

When I chose to write this piece, I reflected upon my own childhood of having an older sibling with disabilities. Even though, she didn’t have autism, her disabilities influenced me as a sister, a daughter, as a mother, and today as a practitioner. We often read information on the perspective of the parent, the person with the disability, but not so much about the perspective of the sibling.

At this very moment, I am sitting on my couch typing this article, I see my son jotting down his research of...

 

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