Jason McElwain has the game of his life

Video says it all

April is Autism awareness month. April 2nd is International Autism Day.

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I'm calling out to the YouTube and world at large, asking for help with something that needs dealt with but that I can't do alone.

This song is "Riding to Vanity Fair" from Sir James Paul McCartney's   more..."Chaos and Creation in the Backyard" album, 2005  less

This crazy guy scores 20 points in four minutes.

Right-wing radio talk show host Michael Savage, who described 99 percent of children with autism as brats, said Monday he was trying to 'boldly awaken' parents to his view that many people are being wrongly   more...diagnosed. (July 21)  less

It's okay to laugh at the beginning as long as you appreciate the heartwarming ending.

I golf, but what I really do best is drive the golf cart.

The Children's Home the state put me in when I was 13. The year was 1977. I lived there until the day before I was 19. They helped kids considered abused, neglected, emotionally disturbed and mentally   more...handicapped.
The state I lived in decided that as an autistic person who was also believed to be mentally retarded and with the particulars of my home life that I qualified as 'all of the above' for placement there. However the children's home had only converted from an orphanage a year and a half before and autistics were still pretty rare (as were places to treat them. This was the only place like it for a 300 mile radius). They had never had an autistic kid and had never seen anything like me before. I was the only one even remotely like me the whole time I was there. While I was a kid I didn't realize it at the time, but being placed there was the best thing that could have happened to me.
Years later I found out that when they took me away my dad got in his car and drove around listening to my Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band tape and when it got to this song he had to pull the car over and stop because he was crying.
That's me in the red shirt at my uncle's house (one of the places where I was a foster kid before being placed at the children's home), that's me in the pamphlet with the blocks and my counselor guy, and me in the yellow shirt with barrettes in the pictures smiling and hugging a boy and then one of my dorm-mates.  less

I Own Me

This was one of the very first things I found, near the top of the first box I went looking in. How perfect is that?
This was titled "A Declaration of Self Esteem" by its author but   more...I think "I Own Me" sums it up best.  less

New haircut, New voice.

A Road Trip for a "Drug" by an Autistic man. What will gluten do to him? This is a self test.

See description at the end of video

This video shows my son using a program called Smart Tutor. He is high functioning and was having a really good day when I shot this.

I am Mickie and I have Regressive Autism.

Inflammatory bowel disease in children with autism, is something not many people talk about. Many kids with autism have digestive distress. Most doctors ignore these children's pain and just assume that   more...their self injurious behaviors and digestive issues are just part of autism and that is simply not true. Dr. Wakefield, a British gastroenterologist has collected data that suggest an abnormal autoimmune response to the measles vaccine in children that later on developed autism. Mickie is one of those unfortunate children.  less

AUTISM: http://www.InstantAutismResults.com helps autistic children speak, communicate, sleep well, function better. No drugs/costly therapy. Amazing parent testimonials. YouTube, Google Video.

My Open Letter to CNN and Dr Gupta, as stated on the AutismSpeaks forum.

me, drawing a cartoon about a zoological problem, that occurs from time to time...

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My son Devan   more...has autism. John Ondrasik of the band Five for Fighting has teamed up with Revver to present the "what kind of world do you want" charity. Up to 49 cents will be donated to our selected cause, Austism Speaks, for each view we get on their site. Please click the link and show your support.

Thank you
Sincerly
Eragon-Lao  less

This is an amazing kid, god love him.

Can you guess what it is? Hmmm....

For my son who is approaching another birthday