Monday, April 04, 2011

Autism Awareness Month

This should have been posted Saturday but with two children in the house I am barely ever at the computer anymore. The kids enjoy taking turns or fighting over it now. I have discovered an app on my iPod that will allow me to post from my iPod which means In can post more often. Now about Autism Awareness this is important because as any parent of child with Autism can tell you the level of awareness of people around you can make a huge difference. I am forever trying to tell people about my son's Autism. Sometimes I find people who listen and sometimes all I find is ignorance. I still have to try the more people know the more they accept. My son was diagnosed at the age of six with PDD (NOS). That was almost a year ago. May 28, 2010 to be exact. Since then I have never stopped reading on the subject of Autism. Looking at research data and reading up on all new Autism documents. I have read hundreds of things on Autism, and though I understand more about Autism I still am never quite sure what to tell people about why Autism happens and what we can do about it. We do therapy and our son is enrolled in a special program. This summer in addition to therapy he will take a social play class too. We enroll him in therapy and now play group hoping he can learn the skills he needs to be accepted. That is what I want most for him!! I do not want him to feel left out or odd or alone ever!! I want him to be able to relate to others and share common interests and know that he is accepted. He has HUGE potential as all children do but if he is only ever seen as the Autistic kid what are the chances of him reaching his potential? My husband and I recently had a t-shirt and sweatshirt saying Autism help unlock a piece of the puzzle for our son Adrian made. I wear mine to raise awareness and I have not had anyone ask me about Autism or Adrian yet. I am shocked however because before the t-shirt I would have complete strangers in line ahead of me talking about how bad my son is and how I should beat him. Yeah how about I beat them. I have been known to spank, but spanking does not work on my son unless he knows what he did. I would never spank him for acting up in a store when his sensory issues are so bad that lights physically cause him pain!!! To those people I say mind your own damn business or scream he has Autism now shut up. This usually works. Trying to spread awareness to people who think my son should be beat for every little thing he does and that will help don't need my message what they need is a message on human decency and how to behave like you have a kind bone in your body!!! Sorry if i'm rambling but it just angers so much!!!!!!! I think I'm done for today thanks for listening :)

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