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What Is “Best” When There’s Autism in the Family? |
| Published: September 2, 2007, 2:45 pm |
| Tags: drama, living arrangements, disability rights, family, arthur miller, asd, aspergers, autism, beach, children, developmental disability, down syndrome, drama, education, family, health, intelligence, mr, ocean, parenting, pdd nos, science, surfing, theater, vanity fair |
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Two recent posts here about playwright Arthur Miller and his son, Daniel Miller, who was placed in a “home for infants” in New York City soon after his birth, have provoked much discussion. What happens to a family when a child with developmental delays—Daniel Miller had Down syndrome, my son Charlie has autism—is born? Suzanna Andrews’ September 2007 Vanity Fair article suggests that one reason Daniel Miller was institutionalized was due to concerns that Miller had about how his daughter, Rebecca Miller, might be affected by growing up in a family with a disabled child: A friend of Inge’s recalls visiting her at home, in Roxbury, about a week later. “I was sitting at the bottom of the bed, and Inge was propped up, and my memory is that she was holding the baby and she was very, very unhappy,” she says. “Inge wanted to keep the baby, but Arthur wasn’t going to let her keep him.” Inge, this friend recalls, “said [ Full article ] |
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