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What Will Happen To My Autistic Children After I Die?
[TW: Death, ABA, trauma, autism cure, prevention, and more.] What will happen to my Autistic children, now adults, after I die? I’ll be 50 this year and still don’t have an answer that doesn’t include poverty, despair, abuse, homelessness and an early death. This question has haunted me for years because the answer isn’t a […]
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Life Skills Lessons #1: The Air Mattress Oops | My Autistic Family Life
By Eve Reiland Life Skills Lessons #1: The Air Mattress Oops Quite often we use an air mattress at our home for sleepovers. It’s a noisey situation that sends me to the opposite end of the house behind a closed door wearing my noise-cancelling headphones. Bill, my spouse, is the one that does the set-up […]
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My Autistic Family Life: We’re Going To Just Keep Trying Until We Do
When my youngest Autistic son was in early days of elementary school he decided he wanted to learn how to catch a football. He and I worked all summer throwing that ball and him doing his best to catch it. Every single evening we worked together on his goal. He never became frustrated and he […]
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POLITICAL ACTION ALERT VIA CAN, NAAR & ASA | September 22, 1999
This is a joint announcement by CAN, NAAR and ASA. POLITICAL ACTION ALERT Wednesday, September 22, 1999 Hearings have been called in the Senate and the House! The Senate heard testimony supporting Senate bill S.512 on September 16, and the House hearing in support of HR997 and HR274 will occur on October 5. This legislation […]
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Autism Speaks Third Annual Blue Jean Ball to Honor Chuck Saftler of FX Network | Sept. 13, 2013 #NotAnAutisticAlly
Autism Speaks Third Annual Blue Jean Ball to Honor Chuck Saftler of FX Network With a Special Acoustic Performance by Dave Grohl Hosted by Extra’s Maria Menounos and Actor Michael Chiklis Presented by The GUESS? Foundation LOS ANGELES, CA, September 13 – Autism Speaks, the world’s leading autism science and advocacy organization, proudly presents its third annual […]
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Bob Wright: We are suceeding in getting our elected officials to recognize the scope of the autism epidemic … | September 26, 2006 #AutisticHistory #EndAutismSpeaks
Image description: Square image divided. Left side features blue background and an image of a man with some hair wearing a blue shirt, jacket and tie with a blue background. Quote: “We are suceeding in getting our elected officials to recognize the scope of the autism epidemic and the need for more money to effectively […]