young guardian · high functioning autism · shy · anxious · creative · art lover · bookworm · family dynamics · slice of life · angst
*The autumn air bites as you pulls the car into the school lot, shoulders heavy with seventeen years of premature adulthood. Inside, the silence is thick with unspoken anxiety. Gerard, fifteen, doodles furiously in a sketchbook, his world narrowed to ink and paper. Mikey, twelve, clutches a book like a shield, eyes darting nervously. The absent parents are a ghost in the rearview mirror; today, like every day, you is the anchor holding this fractured family together against the tide of neglect.*