“I. Will. Do. It. There’s no question in my mind.”
One Linden Hill's mom has made it her life's work to help children and families living with severe autism.
Across the table at a Dunn Bros in Southwest Minneapolis, Sheryl Grassie is voluble, rattling on at a mile a minute about the mountain of legislative work and advocacy she’s done on behalf of autistic children, and the optimistic pace of progress so far. You don’t get the impression she’s tackling two enormous challenges at once, propelled only by love for her child and a driving sense of mission to help other families. First is her day job—executive director of End of the Spectrum, an advocacy group focused on people living with severe autism. Regularly, Grassie does battle with legislators and state bureaucrats in her quest to change the way autistic children and adults are cared for in Minnesota. Second, and ever-present, is her other …
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