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Silver Spring, Md. March 25 — It all started when Jennifer Ethirveerasingam looked at her April issue of Parents magazine. Mother to a child with autism and aware that April is Autism Awareness Month, she began to page through the magazine, looking for an article—anything—about autism. Finding nothing, she told some friends, who posted on the Parents magazine Facebook page under the heading “Lack of Autism Coverage.”
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Some great sites listed here, including this one which comes in at #14 … 50 Great Blogs & Links for Autism Teachers Tweet This Post
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The post on Autism Murder Suicides continues to get comments. Sadly, Lucinda pretty much sums up what a lot of parents are thinking here …
As I am a single mother of a boy with autism I would never kill him. I do though think of killing myself. This is a black hole that one just cannot dig themselves out of, it is no way to live. Yes he has many talents and is good at them. Yes he has a future. Unfortunately he will alwqays need an aide, and who will step up and do that? Anyone who I can trust when I’m gone? The answer is no and there lies the doom and gloom. A constant state of doom and gloom of my reality takes hold and never lets you go. Do not make comments unless you are in the same position and live with this day in and day out for 16 years. After you do that, then comment away. Until then keep your trap shut!
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I’ve blogged in the past about how autism magnifies issues in your life. Just as marriage problems, money problems, addiction problems are magnified and more dangerous, so too is depression. So too is depression during the holidays.
I’ve been struggling with this lately and feel like I am on the edge of depression. The holidays do not help. In our case, we have multiple sides of our families to see during Christmas. I feel like a jerk even thinking it, but at times I hate Christmas. If we had one Christmas on actual Christmas day, it might be different, but with multiple Christmases, I am just ready for it to be over by the time the real deal arrives.
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The Autism Retort (Drudge style) has been relaunched. The Autism Retort blog / blog roll site will continue to function here. Please bookmark and pass along the new site. Tweet This Post
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I am going to be revisiting / revamping the Schools4Autism blog that has been dormant for awhile due to life intruding on blogging. If you know of a good autism school in your area or you have such a school not found below, drop me an email or comment please. The Schools4Autism blog is an offshoot of this (the list) old and long since abandoned page. The List page gets a ton of web traffic even though it hasn’t had any TLC / updating in a very long time.
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I recently wrote about the need to find a way to stay positive for yourself and for your child with autism. I think the main difficulty in achieving this goal consistently for some people is the ups and downs inherent in autism. You stay positive, things are going good, then BAM something happens to remind you of the realities of autism. It’s easy to stay positive in the good times. It’s the bad that require you to dig deep for strength.
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Great article on Donald T, the first diagnosed case of autism. The Atlantic: Autism’s First Child
While not the main point of the story, it did include this passage which I think about every day of my life.
The question that haunts every parent of a child with autism is What will happen when I die? This reflects a chronological inevitability: children with autism will grow up to become adults with autism, in most cases ultimately outliving the parents who provided their primary support.
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Yes, I love my child. Yes, she has autism. Yes, some days SUCK. Staying positive in the face of adversity seems to be a learned trait. The ability to do so also seems to come and go. In my case, it’s been gone of late. How do you stay positive in the face of such a daunting never-ending 24/7 challenge? I wish I knew.
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