Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: emotional ride

If you think you have problems with your child!!!!It is hard to read this book with its tensions and the tearing at one's heart. Not knowing about autistic children and especially self-destructive autistic children, I did not realize the heartbreak of living day after day, month after month, year after year with little outside help or knowledge about the condition of a child like Jeff Apple. I gasped at times with some of the situations the Apple family had to face. I marveled at the persistence of this family in trying to find help for Jeff and keep some sense of a family together. Author Phyllis Green has captured this life story in sensitive details and also given the reader a sense of the medical and social agencies available or not available for a self-destructive autistic child. You may read this and weep, but you also marvel at Jeff's spirit and a family core that survived. It is a story you will never forget.