Foreword / Helen Featherstone -- Introduction -- I wish I had given a better smile -- Nursery school -- The "sunshine" kid -- Night noises -- Inklings -- Finding the holiday spirit -- Those TV commercials are passing up a natural -- Is the world ready for the graduates? -- Phantoms -- It's not funny, but ... -- He's lucky, this little boy -- Diary excerpts -- The dream -- Myths and images -- If -- Ben on Ben -- Eye of the beholder -- Underestimating? -- Unexpected dividends -- He'll never sing at the Met -- Still a rose -- Mainstreaming -- Yes? No? Maybe? -- The pie -- Their brother's keeper? -- When we walk the same mile -- It's curtains for the cat! -- Two hours without Ben -- The cringe factor -- Self-awareness? Self-acceptance? -- Wanted ... Fresh blood! -- The group -- Balance and choices -- Average -- Every parent's nightmare -- A joyous, painful graduation -- Smart/dumb -- The job! -- Unbidden shadows -- A touch of reality -- "Charles" -- The spectrum -- Time to go? -- The saddest words -- Down syndrome.
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