Summary Statement : For a long time, everything went as planned. In 1998 my second son Aaron was born. You can see in his toddler pictures that he was very well connected, very happy, and he had great eye contact. He was a normally developing kid. We had no reason to suspect that there was anything wrong with him. In fact, my older son had more of the characteristics we associate with autism. He was very colicky and very sensitive to sound and light when he was a baby. So, Aaron was a real pleasure. In a picture of Aaron after his third birthday, you can see that he was a different child. He no longer had any eye contact, he was pale, he did not appear happy or healthy, and he was no longer connected.