Autism Awareness Week.

Pearl

Pearl

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As some of you know I have two Autistic grandsons, well this week is Autism Awareness week so I'd like to make you all Autism aware. If anyone would like to know more or if I can help anyone with this please feel free to message me.

Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how a person communicates with, and relates to, other people. It also affects how they make sense of the world around them. It affects around 1 in 100 children and is a lifelong condition there is no cure. People living with Autism have a varying range of symptoms from quite mild to debilitating. Every family's journey to diagnosis is different, below I'll post a video of one womans journey, are's was similar to this. At the end of a long hard, heart breaking and fierce fight we still have two funny, gorgeous, mischievous little monkeys. The universe gave us these boys and for that we're grateful, life won't be easy for them but with our love and support they'll do great. We wouldn't change who they are or what they are they are ours and very very precious.

Please watch this 5 minute video, it's 5 minutes out of your life and may help you or someone near you understand. My boys, my family and I thank you for reading this, you have now been made Autism aware. Thank you. :respect:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc-rKkALkmg
 
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Having a grandson with Aspberger's syndrome I can understand some of what you've gone through. Young Sam is 20 y o and has come along in leaps and bounds from the frustrated child he was.:21:
 
Likewise with my son who has Asperger's Syndrome this has my full support. I am involved with our local NAS branch (NAS = National Autistic Society).
 
Pearl said:
As some of you know I have two Autistic grandsons, well this week is Autism Awareness week so I'd like to make you all Autism aware. If anyone would like to know more or if I can help anyone with this please feel free to message me.

Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how a person communicates with, and relates to, other people. It also affects how they make sense of the world around them. It affects around 1 in 100 children and is a lifelong condition there is no cure. People living with Autism have a varying range of symptoms from quite mild to debilitating. Every family's journey to diagnosis is different, below I'll post a video of one womans journey, are's was similar to this. At the end of a long hard, heart breaking and fierce fight we still have two funny, gorgeous, mischievous little monkeys. The universe gave us these boys and for that we're grateful, life won't be easy for them but with our love and support they'll do great. We wouldn't change who they are or what they are they are ours and very very precious.

Please watch this 5 minute video, it's 5 minutes out of your life and may help you or someone near you understand. My boys, my family and I thank you for reading this, you have now been made Autism aware. Thank you. :respect:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc-rKkALkmg
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Thank you, a very moving and humbling experience may your lovely Grandsons have the long happy and fulfilling lives they so deserve.
 
My nephew now 13 was diagnosed with a mild form of autism when he was about 2 and a half. It is something that effects the extended family as well. We support Dillon and like your grandson's they will succeed. :respect::D
 
Autism Awareness Week

Pearl thank you for the link it brought home starkly the issues associated with this condition . I cannot express in words my heartfelt admiration for the dedication of not only the medical staff ,who are trying to battle against this and other conditions, but to the families who live with this on a daily basis and have to struggle against the tide to get public recognition of these conditions .

I hope that all of the members who have relations so sadly suffering from these medical conditions do manage to secure some quality of life and that all of the individuals currently suffering do get any treatment possible to ease the pain and trauma these conditions bring . My utmost best wishes for the future.
 
Pearl,

Apologies if you have seen this already but our local news have been reporting about the plight of a young lad , Ben, who has autism and had a special cup that he treasured and constantly drunk out of . He has been in hospital a few times with dehydration because he won't drink out of any other cup than the type he has used since birth. Clearly over the years the ones he has owned have been damaged and suffered wear and tear.

His father desperate to source another number of cups contacted the manufacturer Tommy Tippee but its ten years since they stopped producing that model . As a last resort he put a request out on Facebook and Twitter and to his surprise and great delight people have been in touch and sent him their cups through the post from around the world . On the local news tonight Tommy Tippee have been scouring their factories across the globe and have found a set of original moulds from which they are going to a produce a special run of 500 for Ben .

What a wonderful story and superb response from the public and the company . Knowing your own personal experiences I thought you would appreciate the story . :)
 
Thank you Captain, yes I've been following the story closely, we have similar issues with my grandsons but not as binding as this poor boy, it's a very real trate with autism, a lot of people just don't understand and that's very distressing for families with autistic children. Thankfully this is a worse case scenario but it's a real struggle. I knew people would pull together and help, people are amazing and it's so good that company have done this for the family.
There was a case a few years ago with a family whose autistic son would only eat a certain breakfast porridge, when manufacturers changed the recipe the child wouldn't eat so the parents had go and buy up all the old stock they could find, when the company found out about it they sent the recipe to the family so they could make their own. It's stories like this that make happy to be human.
 
One can only hope that stories such as this and the one you mention promote awareness and a greater appreciation of what impact Autism has not only on the people who have it but those closest to them and how it effects them . I saw another article about an ex Hotel in Gateshead opening it's doors to offer not only respite care for people with Autism but also offers training to those people in hospitality related jobs . They have a Cafe which is staffed by the trainees and provides food for people not only resident at the Centre and families who have members with Autism but also for the general public [news item on local news stated it was now open to public I believe] .

It's a little way from me but I am certainly going to make the effort to go for lunch or coffee when I can and I will most certainly be encouraging friends to join me . The link to the article is below if you would like to read Pearl.

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/business/business-news/uks-first-hotel-young-people-11726193
 
Thank you Captain, I'll read that. Autistic adults can be a great addition to a businesses, they are very loyal and methodical with great attention to detail, my two keep us on our feet with making sure everything is just right.
 
Very sadly, it's very important that your local police be able to identify and react appropriately to autistic persons. There are some police officers who have not been trained on appropriate responses to autistic people and sometimes they attempt to treat autistic persons like normal people. This has resulted in some autistic persons being arrested and jailed for failing to respond to police commands.
 
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