When 8-year-old Madeline heard her neighbor, Ethan, playing guitar outside, she sent over a paper airplane with a handwritten request for him to play a song by Taylor Swift. She didn't expect that the moment would catch the attention of the pop superstar. “One of my favorite parts of this story is that we didn’t actually know our neighbor. He had moved in before winter, and we never properly introduced ourselves,” said Natalie Hulec, Madeline's mom. “We also had no idea he was a full-time musici

This is the reality of raising a child with level three autism. I stepped outside to let the dog out before my mom came over. I was gone for a few minutes. When I came back inside, Noah had snapped his laptop in half. People often ask why I don’t punish him for this. The answer is complicated. Noah has Level 3 autism. His brain doesn’t process cause and effect, consequences, or discipline the way most people’s brains do. A severe punishment wouldn’t teach him the lesson people assume it would. H