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My Family With Autism (ADHD)
In my family, I have a brother that has autism with ADHD that can’t communicate with us, a dad and an aunt that have to go to dialysis three times a week, a mom that has had several surgeries in the past for having stomach cysts, several other aunts and uncles that have Type 2 diabetes, and a grandmother I was really close with who died from lung cancer. These events have forced me to grow up faster than I needed to. It may be a cliché, but for me it’s my life because every day I’ve had to make decisions that either made me mature ten years or take me back ten years in my juvenescence. My brother has not always been the way he is. He was once normal, until the doctors found a strawberry hemangioma on his shoulder that could have potentially

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