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My Kid Loves Dogs and Has No Filter. She Doesn’t Deserve Her Grandfather’s Cruel Response.

Care and Feeding I can’t keep on like this. Aug 17, 20266:00 AM Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Getty Images Plus. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, My 11-year-old daughter “Anna” was diagnosed with autism at age 5. Because she looks “normal” and is not intellectually disabled, people often have trouble believing it, choosing instead to believe that her social awkwardness, outspokenness, oversensitivity to raised voices, aversion to touch and eye contact, trouble expressing her own emotions or understanding those of others, and trouble seeing implications beneath the
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