Breaks His Arm, Discovers Autism Along The Way...

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Rick Rollens gave me permission to share this with all of you.

Sheri

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To and our family it was a disaster, as an observer of the real

world and the prevalence of autism, an even larger disaster.

This past Friday, our son , in one of those moments that all parents

with a child with autism can relate to ( you know, your child is out-of-sight

for just that brief moment ) went upstairs in our house and climbed inside

the electric dumbwaiter ( a cargo elevator that moves between the first and

second floors of our house) to pretend he was acting out a scene from Toy

Story 2, got himself trapped inside the dumbwaiter, with his left arm caught

between the top frame of the car and the inside wall. When I ran upstairs in

response to his screams, I found that 's left arm was broken, and

after a few minutes of work, I was able to free him.

Janna called 911, my son helped consol while we waited for

the ambulance to arrive. A few minutes later the ambulance and fire trucks

arrived. As we worked with the paramedics, I noticed that one paramedic was

watching with more interest then the others, and asking questions

about 's behaviors and mannerisms. On the way to the hospital, in the

back of the ambulance, the paramedic who continued to stare at with a

deepening sadness in his eyes, told me that his five year old son who behaves

and looks just like . I asked him if his son had a diagnosis. He told

me that he and his wife had taken his son to a couple of different doctors

and diagnosticians who were unwilling to make a diagnosis, told over and over

again " Dont worry, he'll grow out of it " . It was clear to me by the

description of his son, that his son was autistic, or fell somewhere within

the autism spectrum disorder spectrum. I was devastated for this young

father, and the horror of once again meeting someone, quite by chance, who

had a child with autism, a condition that many so-called autism experts and

public health officials continue to insist is not more prevalent than it used

to be.

Upon arriving at the hospital, and after hours of waiting, we were finally

seen by an orthopedic surgeon. We told him that suffers with autism.

He looked at and said " I know how to deal with him, I have a

daughter with autism " . Two out of two locations. What are the chances of

that? Well, from similar experiences told by hundreds of other parents and

care providers, not such an uncommon finding at all.

The question remains, are we as a society going to wake up to the fact that

there are more and more of these kids everywhere we look, or continue to act

like ostriches with our heads in the sand, not believing what is happening

around us. rick

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From: rrollens@...

>Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 17:27:20 EST

>Subject: Re: [i-v-y] Breaks His Arm, Discovers

Autism Along The Way...

>

>thanks for your concern. things are stabilizing for

and the rest of >us. you may send the post to

anyone and everyone you want. rick

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