Author: DavidRoyko

This is a political post, but it is not meant to stir anything up or accuse anybody of anything. I beg everyone to NOT post anything antagonistic about EITHER candidate below this post, or anything negative about people who are

Having just started reading (and looking at — this is an epic masterpiece of photography, which I was already prepared for) “Immersed — Our Experience With Autism,” by Bruce and Valerie Hall), I think I might be reading the greatest

If you don’t know and love a guy like Ben, you may not understand why this 30-second video makes me tear up. He’s better husband material than I am! And extra-special thanks to the extra-special Mary Beth at Ben’s house

AUTISM AND THE ELECTION: If you’ve known us for a while, you know our whole story with autism, which messed up Ben’s life before he really even had a chance to start it. I don’t know if we are single-issue

Karen and I heard their brand new voices for the first time at 3:30 in the morning, tiny and insistent, premiered in the delivery room, and we have (usually…) adored them more than any other sounds, through all their changes,

Thanks a lot, Jerry Seinfeld. Actually, I mean it. At least Seinfeld did the right thing a couple of years ago by quickly pulling back his dumb, seemingly off-the-cuff remarks that he himself was autistic. It turned out, he wasn’t

My almost-23 year old severely autistic son Ben and I were walking on a favorite path along the shore of Lake Erie in Cleveland when I saw the very pretty jogger running our way. Passing us, she gave a big

Jake came along for this Ben weekend and it made for a beautiful Father’s Day. — Me, Jake — and Ben doing his avant-garde posing. On Saturday, I posted this pic to Facebook, with the caption, “Ben has eclectic taste