The writing describes a journey, taking readers through hope, despair, pain and resurrection. It touches on the collective human experience of suffering and redemption while showing a pathway to a profoundly higher ground of understanding and acceptance.

The story is written from a collective heart, formed by countless intimate exchanges with families struggling and triumphing again to again as they live and love in the autistic world.
The greater purpose, beyond the story of autism, is the universal message that from the depths of darkness, often we find the greatest enlightenment. The autistic individual is a beautiful metaphor for this belief. In a culture that bombards us with messages that perfection is key to happiness, autistic individuals and their families dare to challenge this notion while drawing others to look beneath and beyond the superficial. With startling beauty, the images prove what in words alone might be denied: that beneath and beyond autism there is a reality often missed~a will, a soul, and identity that achieves the full measure of it's creation~~to connect with others in ways not seen or appreciated by surface observation.

This combination of narrative and photography becomes a powerful parable that reaches and teaches far beyond autism itself, touching on spiritual truths, often lost in the cultural mainstream.