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‘I Learneded I Was Autistic Thanks To My Son’

When Katherine Payne received her autism diagnosis, her husband Ben’s reaction was just as she had hoped.

“My diagnosis wasn’t a negative thing, it was a ‘yes, of course, that’s perfect, that’s why I love you’!” she tells Woman’s Day.

But it was Katherine’s young son Callen’s response that was even more important, as her own

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