Who woulda thought Jenny McCarthy would hit the nail on the head?

I've tried several times to express to the two or three people that read this blog regularly what it is like to find out you have a "different" child.

I happened across something written on CNN.com today by former "Singled-Out" hottie Jenny McCarthy re: finding out her son has autism. You can read the whole piece here, but below is an excerpt which cuts to the quick:

I almost felt betrayed, like I didn't know this child standing in front of me. Everything I thought was cute was a sign of autism and I felt tricked. I guess the doctor sensed this from me because he turned my head back toward him and said, "He is still the same boy you came in here with."
No, in my eyes he wasn't. This was not Evan. Evan was locked inside this label, and I didn't know if I would ever get to know who Evan really was. All the behaviors I had thought were personality traits were autism characteristics, and that's all I had. Where was my son, and how the hell do I get him back?

Who woulda thought a former object of my desire would be able to encapsulate such a hard thing in beautiful words. Good work Jenny!