Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)

Been thinking about the "pervasive" part of PDD.  I used to believe that if we could just get rid of the autism, Noah would be a delight to live with, a success at life, the person he was meant to be.  Then along came Stephen Shore, the famous Aspie, who said that autism is so pervasive, you cannot separate the person from the autism.  I was depressed for years after reading that, which I suspect is the opposite effect he wanted to have.  Last nite Noah was cuddled up next to me, and we were talking about books and music, and I started thinking about how lovely it would be if this was the "real" Noah.  Of course these moments in time are so fleeting, so rare, and soon enough he was back to his usual self, blasting the sound on his computer, being nasty to us and torturing the dog (that's the next blog post).  All of it just for attention, which by the way he does get 24/7.  I hate autism.