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When Amar Singh's daughter Enya was diagnosed with autism, he did what any determined father would do: he researched therapies, consulted experts, and developed comprehensive strategies to help her adapt to the world. For eight years, he measured success by her progress toward conventional milestones. Then came a week that changed everything. In seven days of simply being present with Enya, he discovered he had been asking the wrong questions. Instead of wondering how to help her fit into society, he began asking what her way of being could teach him about consciousness, intelligence, and authentic living. Eighteen Years with Enya chronicles a father's apprenticeship with a daughter who never spoke a full sentence yet became his greatest teacher. This memoir reveals how the children we call "different" might be demonstrating forms of awareness our world desperately needs -and how the journey from trying to change someone to learning from them, can transform everything we think we know about what makes a meaningful life.