2018 Best in Show
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boston press photographers association
Craig F. Walker
Boston Globe
He is moody and unpredictable. He is easy to love, affec- tionate, and friendly. Vulnerable, sweet, devoted to family. Impulsive, strong, and overflflowing with emotion. Dreaming of home, always. Never quite at home, anywhere. This is Connor Biscan, a puzzle his family and caregivers have worked long and hard to solve, a boy who lives at the intersection of autism and mental illness. It isn’t so much a rare place — as many as half of autistic children suffer from mental health problems — but it can be a deeply bafflfling one. The overlap between these afflflictions is hard to untangle; diagnosis and treatment can be very diffificult. And a health care system meant to help can instead be frustrating, even harsh.