Braden's Momma Wears Combat Boots

If I am an expert on any one thing, it's autism. And I'm only an expert on our brand of autism. I never wanted to be an expert in any kind of autism, but I was drafted. Which, quite honestly, makes me angry. I wanted to be a mother, desperately, but this...I'm the soldier who grew up wanting to serve and came of age in the middle of a war. I'm terrified most of the time. The part that terrifies me most is that our war, our journey-however long it feels like it's been-has only just begun.