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The National Society for Children and Adults with Autism (NSAC)* can be understood as a family, with all the shades of meaning, all the positive and negative connotations, all the happiness, elation, boredom, work, responsibility, determination, anger, frustration, and peace that “family” implies.
We persist because we love our children, they need us desperately and few others are willing to take up the fight. We persist because we fear what the future holds and time is short and barriers are great.
We join together because we are few ... our energy will someday wane, our supporters are limited, and we must make headway now, while we can.
We strive ... because we know that the very lives of our children depend on it, and we must make change, for their sake, or they will die unseen, their beauty unappreciated, locked up, unloved and alone. (Warren, 1978, p. 242)
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Warren, F. (1984). The Role of the National Society in Working with Families. In: Schopler, E., Mesibov, G.B. (eds) The Effects of Autism on the Family. Current Issues in Autism. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2293-9_6
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