AUTISM = Always Unique, Totally Interesting, Sometimes Mysterious

03/26/2017

April is autism awareness month...feel free to share your favorite pictures,stories etc

03/24/2017

Welcome to Holland
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability — to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this…

When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans… the Coliseum, the Sistine Chapel, Gondolas. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting. After several months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives.

You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, “Welcome to Holland!” “Holland?” you say. “What do you mean, Holland? I signed up for Italy. I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy.” But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland and there you must stay. The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place full of pestilence, famine, and disease. It’s just a different place.

So, you must go out and buy new guidebooks. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. It’s just a different place. It’s slower paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around. You begin to notice that Holland has windmills. Holland has tulips. And Holland even has Rembrandts. But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy, and they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life you will say, ” Yes, that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned.”

And the pain of that experience will never, ever, ever, go away. The loss of that dream is a very significant loss. But if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things about Holland. E.K.

04/23/2016

Stop in for a visit

For friends, family, and anyone else who has had the opportunity to know someone with Autism.

04/05/2016

What's your favorite book/movie about Autism or someone with autism?

02/13/2015

11/22/2013

What is the biggest challenge you are facing right now with Autism? ( Ex social,diet,tantrums,understanding,other family members....)

01/20/2011

Jenny McCarthy has teamed up with firm Pem America to create her own safe line of bedding for infants and babies. The Autism News By Bang | MSN | www.TheAutismNews.com

01/16/2011

hi everyone...i'm sorry it's been so long, lack of internet is NO fun! Had lots of issues with modems, routers, etc...hopefully I can get this page up and running now....

05/11/2010

my 4 year old with autism has lately had some ocd-like behaviors that are fairly new...like not letting anyone unbuckle him from the car-seat except for me...if dad does it, my son will be hysterical until i bring him back to the van, buckle him in, and then unbuckle him...trying to figure out if its the routine of his autism, or a new OCD thing...any ideas?

04/10/2010

If anyone would like to be an admin and help post info and run the page, let me know :))

04/07/2010

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Mayor declares April 6 'Temple Grandin Day' in honor of autistic CSU professor