Autism: Choosing Who to Trust

As we sat around the Thanksgiving table my mother told the same stories she had told a hundred times before. She generally thinks they are funny, me not so much. This came after her mistakenly giving me a hard time about a neighbor who she had confused with my sister in law — that’s a completely different long story that I still haven’t wrapped my head around. One of her ‘funny’ stories she was repeating this time came about because we were talking about my middle son handing out Halloween candy. This was his first year with his own place that he had visitors and my husband joined him with my youngest. In the covid age…