Miriada

April 2, is the International awareness day!, but my life was agitated to say the list this past week so i will do my IDIC day today!!!!

Celebrating IDIC!

New CDC report estimates 1 in 88 children have an ASD

March 29, 2012
By Autism Society

Today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its latest report that states 1 in every 88 U.S. children has autism. This affirms what we have already observed through the Autism Society’s national network. The population of individuals with autism in the United States is continuing to rise.
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“The increasing rate of autism incidence should serve as an urgent call to action to address the most critical issue facing individuals with autism and their families right now: lack of access to affordable and appropriate services,” said Autism Society Board Chairman Jim Ball.

This report presents a number of other important details, including:


One in 54 boys and 1 in 252 girls also have ASDs

More children were diagnosed at earlier ages – a growing number of them by 3 years old. However, most children still were not diagnosed until after age 4. Diagnoses was particularly much later for children with Asperger’s Syndrome.

http://www.autism-society.org/news/1-in-88-children-have-asds.html

Aperger's is part of the ASD spectrum but it is in between ASD and neurotypicals (the other 88 of each 100)

I'm a mother of a ten years old, Ricardo. It was a very hard and long journey to have a diagnosis when he was just 7, but now he is at a school who understand him and have physical therapy with a group of autistic children every week and i see how he is opening to his little brother and to us little by little he is learning to live in this society who doesn't understand him.

I hope someday everybody understand that people are different but being different is not a sickness is not a disability is a difference and we must celebrate "The infinite diversity in infinite combinations".

Aspergers are like Mr. Spock or like Sherlock Holmes in a way, they don't understand humans/others and this conflict them and stress them. ( in Spock case he suffer for it; in Sherlock case he decides he doesn't care anymore)

It is difficult to try to fit in a world where no one accept differences

We have racism
Homophobia
and We reject Autistic people

There is a lot of news of police and teachers abuse of Aspergers

They are not dangerous
they haven't mental disabilities, in fact several of them are geniuses
They are not a time bomb
They are not Violent

They feel too much and more deeply than us and they need Structure, Concrete thinking, Logic and Anticipation to act, and they don't like you touch them without permission.

They need acceptance!

Maybe they don't look to you in to your eyes when you talk, but it is not because they don't care, or because they are hiding something from you it's because they don't understand you and maybe you frighten them!


They have a big backpack where they put all their stress and our abuse and bulling, and they
have meltdowns and shutdowns as children and teens and need solitude and space as an adults to control their emotions.

here a vid about Asperger syndrome so you understand it better :D



The Infinite diversity

SO IDIC IS THE WAY! WE Must Accept and Celebrate

in infinite combinations".

As some of you know My elder son Ricardo is in the autism spectrum! He is or have Asperger Syndrome

Today is the day for me to tell you "Hey, one kid between 92-100 will born with Autism!!
So someone near you is autistic!

Autism is not equal to retarded or stupid, most of the autistic children have normal or very high IQ, and they can go to school and universities.
But they need our help, because they don't understand our rules, our double speech, sarcasm, lies or even our corporeal cues. The world is an strange place were strange people have strange rules, that they don't understand so they need to learn in order to live with us.
If a kid with autism is diagnosed early in life He/She will recognize how to live with you when He/She will be an adult and everything will be more easy. If Not and we live in denial, that kid could develop psychiatric problems as an adult, like obsessive compulsive disorders, severe depression, agoraphobic, or food disorders or others . This will be not because they are autistic, but because they are humans and living year after year of being bullied, without understand why you say this and mean other different thing, why are you angry or sad, living without love and comprehension make this to you!

I'm proud and happy mom of Ricardo even if sometimes we don't understand each other and we are streesed, but we are learning and i hope he could live as an adult in a place who really live to "Infinite diversity in infinite combinations!"

So please take the time to watch this little vid with more info (the vid, is not new, so it said 1 of each 150 children is autistic, but today numbers says, 1 each 92 is)



in spanish

Celebrating IDIC!



I'm a mother of a nine years old, Ricardo. It was a very hard and long journey to have a diagnosis when he was just 7, but now he is at a school who understand him and have physical therapy with a group of autistic children every week and i see how he is opening to his little brother and to us little by little he is learning to live in this society who doesn't understand our angels.
I hope someday everybody understand that people are different but being different is not a sickness is not a disability is difference and we must celebrate "The infinite diversity in infinite combinations".

Aspergers are like Mr. Spock they don't understand humans and this conflict them and stress them.
It is difficult to try to fit in a world where no one accept differences
We have racism
Homophobia
and We reject Autistic people

There is a lot of news of police and teachers abuse of Aspergers

They are not dangerous
They are not a time bomb
They are not Violent

They feel too much and more deeply than us and they need Structure, Concrete thinking, Logic and Anticipation to act, and they don't like you touch them without permission.

They need acceptance!

Maybe they don't look to you in to your eyes when you talk, but it is not because they don't care is because they don't understand you and you frighten them!


They have a big backpack where they put all their stress and our abuse and bulling, and they
have meltdowns as children and teens and need solitude and space as an adults to control their emotions

SO IDIC IS THE WAY! WE Must Accept and Celebrate
The Infinite diversity


in infinite combinations".