“Because You Taught Me to Be.” My Mother-in-Law Mocked My Six-Year-Old for Wearing His Sister’s Dress. She Didn’t Know I Could Hear Her. 

“We haven’t told most people yet.”

“Why?”

“Because it’s Theo’s information, and we’re still figuring out what he needs.”

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“But You Just Said—”
Carol looked at the yellow dress, then at Bea, and I knew exactly what was coming before she said it.

“So that’s why he does all this?”

Josh’s face hardened. “No.”

Carol pointed vaguely toward Theo. “The dresses. The dolls.”

“No.”

“But you just said—”

“I said Theo is autistic. I didn’t say autism makes him like dresses.”