ABC Nightline will feature list member's family

[Guest guest]

Dear listmates:

Tonight and tomorrow night, ABC's " Nightline " will feature two parts of a

series on autism. The second part, which will air on Wednesday, May 31st,

will feature my oldest son, Jimmy, and will explore the impact of our

younger's son's autism on Jimmy as his brother and on our whole family.

Here's more information, as published in the Schafer Autism Report:

" Nightline " Explores Love And Autism In Echoes of Autism: In Love

Tuesday, May 30

ABC News and " Nightline " have reported extensively on Autism and how

the fastest growing developmental disability impacts the more than one

million people living with Autism and the people close to them. In their

latest report on autism, the ABC News team of correspondent Donvan and

producer Caren Zucker look at emotions and autism and ask the question: can

people with autism feel love and heart-break the same way non-autistic

people do? In their report airing this Tuesday May 30th on " Nightline " Mr.

Donvan profiles DeSavino, a 36-year-old New Jersey man living with

autism who says he's in love. But does he really know what it means to be

in love and to connect? His mother DeSavino of Rivervale, NJ

describes how his condition makes it more difficult for him to connect with

others: " He goes off into his own little world and that's the difficult part

in having a relationship. It's because he leaves them. He could leave them

cold and he can't open himself up. He doesn't know how to do that yet. "

Mr. Donvan and Ms. Zucker's report, " Echoes of Autism: in Love "

airs on ABC News " Nightline " Tuesday May 30 at 11:35 p.m. (ET/PT). The next

night, Wednesday May 31, Donvan and Zucker look at autism in the family in

" Echoes of Autism: My Brother's Keeper " and the burdens and blessings of

being the brother or sister of an autistic person.