Novelist: ‘You need to take my son to jail’
September 1st, 2008Novelist Ann Bauer (no relation) writes in the New York Times about her son’s journey from autism to schizophrenia. When he stole her car, she decided to press charges. An excerpt:
In his deliberate, troubled way, my son had done it: he had found his way to adulthood. And although I didn’t know it then, he would find his way through this, too. But he needed to go through it, not back, and not around. Maybe that’s what he knew better than any of us.
Andrew gave me a glimmer of a smile before facing the judge and narrating, in clear language, the story of his crime.
Earlier piece by Ann Bauer is here.
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