2050. Your Hardest Family Question: How Do I Navigate My Fears About Autism in My Future Children? By Geoff Steurer, MS, LMFT, in Meridian Magazine
I thought this may be interesting to any of you who have challenges like this! I grew up in a generation which didn't even know of autism. If someone seemed different, we just learned to love them as they were. I have a great grandchild or two with some handicaps, one very severe, and one mild. My own children seemed normal as children. Your Hardest Family Question: How Do I Navigate My Fears About Autism in My Future Children? By Geoff Steurer, MS, LMFT · September 21, 2023 Question I’m engaged to be married to the man of my dreams. This next line will undoubtedly make me sound shallow and unkind. But his brother is severely autistic and I’m afraid that we’ll end up having a child of our own with autism too. Both he and I want to have children very much. We’ve talked about it and he’s very excited. He’d make a great father and will be a wonderful provider. That’s not the issue, I’m just so afraid of the challenges that will be placed on us if one of our children has autism. H