It is almost a year since  Boodi’s paediatrician pronounced him to be 100% autistic. That seems like such a long time ago. People ask me how his therapies are going, and I answer that while they are going well, the journey that we are on is very long and very slow.  There is no end point. It’s not a cure that we’re seeking; not rehabilitation. Our autism dance is one step forward, two steps backward. Our paediatrician once said that regression is “the name of the game” for classic autism, which is to say that a child might make progress and learn new things, but then mysteriously lose those skills. I don’t see that so much with Boodi, but when I speak of the…