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Death, Sex & Money

Death, Sex & Money - Autism Isn’t What I Signed Up For

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Audio

Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

When we posted an article on Facebook about deciding to have children, Diane Gill Morris told us, "If someone had told me this is what it’d be like, I never would have had kids."

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0:00.0

I mean, I certainly kind of consider myself to be the go-to person for if you really want to have a conversation about what having kids is like, you know, and maybe want somebody to talk you out of it. Come to Diane.

0:14.9

This is death, sex, and money. That's probably why they invented TiVo so people could have sex.

0:20.9

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

0:24.2

They both screw people for money.

0:26.2

And need to talk about more.

0:28.7

Why did you have to die?

0:31.2

I'm Anna Sale.

0:34.7

I first met Diane Gill Morris on the Death, Sex, and Money Facebook page.

0:39.6

We'd posted an article about people thinking about having kids, and Diane commented,

0:44.3

We have two teenage boys with autism.

0:47.5

I love them deeply, but she wrote, if someone had told me that this is what it'd be like, I never would have had kids.

1:00.4

We reached out to Diane in North Carolina, where she lives outside Raleigh.

1:05.3

I just feel like we live in a society where, especially, you know, now with Facebook and everybody will post

1:12.4

these great, beautiful pictures of their kids and talk about all their great successes and how

1:16.6

wonderful things are.

1:18.1

And I feel like sometimes it would benefit people to understand that you go into kids

1:24.3

thinking that it's going to be this wonderful, amazing, lifelong experience,

1:31.5

and the reality is it may just take so much more from you than you would have imagined.

1:40.9

What she imagined was very different when she first met her husband, Greg. She was 18, a college

1:47.8

sophomore. They were both studying journalism at the University of Missouri. And I was in love with him

1:53.7

within three weeks. Why? He's just, we just click. Like, you know, I was just crazy, but like I got home, like,

2:02.4

literally after our first date and called my mother and I said, oh my God, you won't believe

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