That Welcome to Holland essay has been on my mind.
This morning I went for a walk in the park and stopped at the exercise station to do some push-ups and what not. There was a very chatty older man there with his adult son. He introduced himself "I'm Juan and this is my autistic son." And his son wasn't trendy autistic, he was non-verbal autistic.
We had a lovely chat about the benefits of being in nature etc and as I was getting ready to move on he asked me to take a video of him and his son working out. He helped his son on to the situp bench and assisted him through a set of crunches. You could tell this was a well practiced routine for them.
And as I left it struck me how beautiful that was. Here is a dude that's really making the most of his trip to Holland 🥲🫶