Two Tragedies: Autistic Boy Dies From 12-story Fall
Security is from the Latin prefix se meaning “without” and the noun cura, meaning “care, trouble, concern, worry.” Keeping our kids safe and sound–”without trouble or worry”–is a top priority and this makes us autism parents no different from parents of any and all kids.
What to make of the 12-year old Toronto boy who fell 16 stories to his death from the window of his caretaker’s apartment? The caretaker had left the boy alone for “only a moment,” according to the Toronto Sun, ‘A great, big thud’: 12-year-old ‘was rolling his head’ as stranger tried to comfort him after 16-storey fall.
[Kathleen] Holding [who saw the boy fall past her 8th floor apartment] said she was worried that the boy was alone in the apartment because no one came downstairs after he fell.
“No one came. I want to know why the hell no one was with him,” she said.
“I didn’t even know this little boy’s name and it’s breaking my heart.”
The boy’s death is a tragedy.
The other? That he was not taught about the dangers of windows–that there was no one there–even his caretaker–at the moment he needed someone.
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