As Salaam Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu,
My wife came to me this morning while I was washing the dishes and told me that she just learned that she has a cousin that was though to be autistic when she was younger. Now the little girl is progressing nicely though she still has some behaviour issues.
When she told me this I was relieved, see medical science suspects that genetics plays a role in whether or not someone is autistic. For the life of me I couldn’t think of a single person on either my father’s or mother’s side who had any disorder like autism and my wife said the same. That upset me because if it is not genetics then perhaps it was something I did wrong or it could have been something I could have avoided. I remember agonizing for months thinking about the time my daughter fell when she was small because I forgot to put her seat belt on and very time my wife comes up with another reason she thinks could have caused it, I relive that horrible feeling.
So hearing that bit of news today frees me from the feeling of guilt that I don’t think I deserve but felt none the less. I love my dudu and the thought of my having something to do with her condition was torture.
