Christina Camacho:  

I was so shy and quiet in school that when I grew up and had a son on the autism spectrum I didn't notice that his behavior was not "normal" as it seemed perfectly normal to me. I always wanted to be a math teacher when I grew up. As a graduate student in math, I was a TA, and afterward taught for one semester. After that I turned into a semi-professional singer, and then a full time mommy. After the children had mostly grown up I became a Christian Science practitioner, and now advertise in the Christian Science Journal. One day when I was 11, some girls were talking about what sort of man they would like to marry. Some said "tall, dark, and handsome," some said, "tall, blond, and handsome," some said, "love at first sight." I remained quiet. I talked this over with my grandmother, and commented that "tall" is not the measure of a man, as far as what is important about him; whether dark or blond, if the marriage lasts the man will gray or go bald anyway; and "handsome" is in the eyes of the beholder, and since I had met older women while out with my mother who would show us pictures of their husband or introduce us to the man, saying, "Isn't he handsome," and all I saw was an old man. I figured that "love at first sight" does not mean anything for the long haul, as my parents had fallen in love with each other at first sight, and were not still together. So I told my grandma that I wanted to marry a man who was strong and sweet in all the non-physical ways, like the tea she would give me to drink. That night it came to me very strongly in a dream that whe...Expand for more