As I've read the painful story about the DC teen with autism who has been jailed for assaulting a police officer, I hear the hearts of the parents who wonder: how can they balance their growing child's desire for adult freedoms with their knowledge that the child cannot maintain adult self-controls?
These questions are big questions, the kind of questions on which both the disability rights movement and the "in the closet" status of most of us with bipolar disorder rest.
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