Welcome To Our Autism Blog

I am the mother of a wonderful son who has autism. He is in college and has been on the Dean's List for 2 years. It has been a very long, hard, grueling road. Every step of the way has been a blessing.

Understanding Autism

 
Understanding autism and fear of the dentist is a matter of introducing your child to the right dentist. You need to find a dentist who is experienced with children with disabilities, particularly autism. If you have trouble finding a dentist with such experience, your best option is to choose one who has compassion and a willingness to learn.

Baby psychology and parent psychology are interconnected. The subconscious dimension is the truer and most influential dimension of our humanness. There is no understanding autism and the true causes of autism without understanding this key fact.

The autistic children that I have clairvoyantly read and reported about usually had a variety of reasons for not making eye contact with the people around them. The most basic reason was that they were being defiant. They were being dishonest and knew they were being defiant and did not want "the outside world" to see what they were truly thinking and feeling.

Nevertheless, because of their own suppressed willful intentions and negative feelings, these children are often not clear about what they are actually seeing and feeling.

The outside world is usually a "confusing mess" to most autistic children.
In addition, because of the extreme selfish control that they are exerting over their psychological experiences, their inner world also becomes a confusing mess. It often becomes difficult for them to sort out what is real and what is not. Most children with autism do not even try.There is no understanding autism and the true causes of autism without understanding this key fact. During the time spent in the womb, the baby will react by withdrawing and refusing to interact energetically. Using primitive means the baby will choose to dramatically withdraw in reaction to a parent's (or parents) extreme destructive intentions and energies.

Their parents' unfilled desire to abort usually continued to translate into a subconscious desire to "get rid" of the baby. Even when the baby is still an embryo, he or she experiences this parental "desire" in a primitive way. The embryo, then fetus, senses this "desire" and feels it as an ongoing threat of extinction. The degree of an unborn baby's reaction corresponds to the degree of a parent's (or parents) rejection, psychic abuse, and (after birth) most likely physical abuse.

There are still the behaviors that mystify or infuriate us. Some of the behaviors make us shake our head and mutter, "Oh well." After all, you have to pick your battles. Finding a way to end the constant "Sponge Bob monologue" seems almost impossible at this point, but it seems like a good time to tackle our child's propensity of asking all visitors if he can inspect the label in their jacket.

We are masterful at predicting when behaviors will occur, and adept at preventing many of them. "Don't touch the book on the right," says a parent in haste to prevent a meltdown. At other times it's just too late. "Oh dear! His red balloon just popped. Now he'll need to pop every red balloon he sees" another sighs in anguish while at a party.

ABA training is the best education tool for students and teachers alike. When you learn how to facilitate learning for these students and are able to see the results of these unique teaching methods, you will discover that everything you thought about autism is different. This program is simply remarkable and offers excellent potential for every student involved.

There are many reasons why school systems implement ABA training into their curriculums, but the result is always the same. After ABA is implemented, schools find themselves with a more educated and caring staff that truly understands the importance of treating autism properly.

Autism Advocacy


I believe that to advocate for autism means advocating for the civil, human and humane rights of the autistic person.

Allowing the autistic person the ability to speak and be heard regarding their desires, thoughts and feelings, either via their own abilities to communicate verbally, visually or with assistance.

Honoring their choices about how they wish to live their lives and what assistance they request or require to live a quality life.

A while back, I worked in a legal firm which advocated for the rights of individuals who were less able (financially) to 'hire' the assistance of private lawyers to defend them, and/or assist them in empowering themselves to have their human rights (or other important issues, amongst other things) rightfully respected. When these fellow citizens felt their feelings, issues and selves were respected they felt supported, heard and relieved that there was a service with which they felt they had an equal right, as any one else in the community, to be it justice or care.

Autism Advocacy, just as with the legal firm I worked with, should equally honour and respect the autistic person.

Autism Advocacy, to me, is not about curing the autistic individual, providing invasive/inhumane or 'fad' treatments for autism, 'training' autism out of the person, labouring for hours a day to change the autistic child to become 'normalized', and so on............

I feel that true advocacy for the autistic person (child, teen or adult) is to work with them, work for them, work beside them. Listen to them and be guided by their intrinsic selves, their natural ways of communicating and being.

Gain a clear understanding/interpretation of what the elements of their 'autistic' behaviours (e.g. rocking, handflapping etc.) mean.

Learn what is the best way they can confidently communicate their needs and wishes.

Know that what is one autistic person's 'experience' and way of being is and can be very different to the next autistic individual.

Be respected for their individuality and their personhood.

Autistic children (or persons), who are unable to speak for themselves or act on their own behalf when it comes to what assistance is being provided for them, especially need to be advocated for in a fashion as I have described above. They deserve nothing less.

A person who believes in advocacy in its' truest sense is not a self serving individual. They are individuals who believe in honoring the dignity of a fellow human being and acting on their behalf (when needed or requested to) to ensure that such is upheld by 'others'.