One Hundred and Forty

One child in one hundred and forty doesn't look at anyone. My daughter is that one. The diagnosis sheet read: Autism spectrum disorder, moderate to severe. The doctor said the golden intervention period is until the age of six, and we still have two years left. The rehabilitation fee is 20,000 yuan a month. There are fewer than 500 child psychiatrists in the country. I sold the camera and replaced it with a second-hand DV. My daughter arranged the blocks with her back to me, red, red and blue. She didn't speak or look at me. But when she arranged the blocks for the forty-seventh time, her hand stopped for two seconds. Those two seconds are enough for me to remember for a lifetime. This is a true story about a father who used his camera to record his daughter's transformation from "not looking at people" to "looking at me". Here is a microcosm of the 14 million autistic families. Are you one in 140?