The Time I Got Stuck on a Roller Coaster with My Son with Autism

This is a post by Kimberlee Rutan McCafferty, mother to two sons on the autism spectrum and an Autism Family Partner at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Kim is also the author of a blog about her two children with autism, at autismmommytherapist.wordpress.com. This past summer my family and I spent a day at Great Adventure.  It’s the only place Justin, my severely autistic son, willingly stays for more than an hour (I have often joked with my husband that wherever we live has to be within a thirty minute radius of a Six Flags parks.)  It’s usually a very fun excursion for us, mostly free of angst, and something I truly enjoy doing as a family. Get The Autism Answer on Paperback FREE – CLICK HERE On our last trip there however, things got a little bit interesting. We were all safely ensconced on the Runaway Train roller coaster, rushing precariously along to our first hill, when I looked ahead and saw a man in the front row waving his camera. I heard one of t
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