My Daughter’s Autism is What Makes Her Awesome

Jen Russ
4 min readJul 22, 2019

(Note: this article is an edited version of a Facebook post I submitted to the Autistic Allies Facebook group. Several people asked me to put it in a more shareable format, so here it is!)

In February of 2017, my social worker called to ask if I was willing to take my first foster child placement. She described her as a “six year old with high-functioning autism.” I was excited. I’d…

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Jen Russ

Teacher, reader, writer, adoptive mother, animal lover, nature appreciator.