Being; is the straightforward and arrestingly open account of a hidden life on the spectrum. Confronted with her daughter's ASD diagnosis, Ana S. Daves explores her own state of being, and her many challenges while playing the roles of mother, wife, friend, and daughter. "I feel very little as I guide my ten-year-old to the car, open and shut her door, then my door and place my bulky fur -lined boots firmly onto the pedals. She has agreed to this. After years and years of declining therapy and testing and diagnostics, she has reached her end game. With a jagged kitchen knife held firmly to her tiny neck, she has spewed and uttered those words over and over again: 'I am going to kill myself! I just want to die!`'"