Noises can't hurt: A trip with a son with autism two years into the Israel-Hamas War

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My son, Danny, and I left Israel and traveled to New York and Washington in September for a family wedding, and he had a great time – except when he heard a truck backfire, or the siren of an ambulance or fire engine. His body would tense, and he would get ready to run to a bomb shelter.Danny, 29, is on the autism spectrum, and when I told him, “There are no missile alerts in America, no missiles,” my words seemed to comfort him. But just for a moment. Soon, he would slip back into a topic that

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