Personal Narrative
A Different Kind of Happy
By Tulika Prasad
An autism mom shares her views on what happiness means to special needs families .
Happiness has an interesting ability to shift shapes . Just like a liquid , it will seep in , squeeze into , or fill up your life , no matter
So when we got our son ’ s diagnosis — and realized that all the definitions of happiness we had borrowed from the world needed to be dumped or redefined — we were devastated . In retrospect , I be-