Jennifer Natalya Fink’s heart is in the right place. When her daughter Nadia was diagnosed with nonspeaking autism at the age of 2 1/2, she felt at first like “a blunt object had hit us ... our family felt flayed.” Self-identified as a “crip-queer” Jewish feminist, Fink, however, was not one to wallow in this latest experience of separation from the supposedly normal, happy, “able” lives of others.
