The diagnosis of autism devastates more families every day. A diagnosis doesn’t just affect a child and his immediate family. It touches extended family, friendships, social gatherings, schools and communities as well.
This is a public health issue of the highest priority. We need to join together and speak for our children.
Children with autism are here to teach us to clean up the mess we’ve made of our environment and to stop putting toxic chemicals into our bodies.
With each generation, our bodies take on higher levels of toxins. The results? Children are entering this world with compromised and injured systems (nervous, immune, digestive). Then once they arrive they’re immature systems get assaulted with toxins on a daily basis through air, food, water and chemicals in vaccines.
This problem will not go away unless we speak out for our children. Below are two individuals and one collaboration of individuals unafraid to speak out.
- David Kirby, journalist and NY Times best-selling author of Evidence of Harm and author of new release, Animal Factory. I heard David Kirby on Wednesday night talk about his new book, It’s chilling to hear the toxic effects that concentrated animal feeding operations have on the animals and the environment.
- Jamie Oliver, famous for being the Naked Chef. He recently started a Food Revolution in our country’s schools with his new TV show. Check it out on Friday nights 9pm on ABC. Please support his revolution by signing his petition.
- American Rally For Personal Rights is happening May 26th in Chicago. If you feel strongly about protecting the universal human rights standard of informed consent for all medical interventions, please visit the site and see what you can do support this event.
It’s time to shine the light in the dark corners where so many are afraid to look. The longer we wait, the more devastating the results. How much longer are you willing to wait? Will you please join me and let your voice be heard.
Please share your thoughts about what you see as a result of the increased level of toxins all around us.
What do you feel when you read this statistic? Does it elicit any emotion? What thoughts come up? Does it prompt you to ask the questions why and what can I do to help?
I hope so because this has long since been a hidden epidemic. Autism now affects 1.5 million individuals in the U.S. alone and is a rapidly growing public health issue. These statistics grab my attention and with today World Autism Awareness Day, I challenge you to think about what these statistics mean to you.
Ignoring the statistics or arguing about whom to blame won’t solve the problem. I believe if we listen we will find the answers.
The time to listen is now.
Children affected by autism have important lessons to teach us…VERY IMPORTANT! They will not be ignored. They encompass the answers. I believe our job is to listen to them and if they don’t have words, listen to what their bodies and behaviors communicate.
As a mother raising a non-verbal child with autism, I have my theories. One, that our environment has increasingly become more toxic and exposing our unborn children in the womb to the increased level of toxins and chemicals we breathe and ingest affects the overall system development of a baby. Our food products are filled with chemicals and ingredients I can’t pronounce and we share the air with the entire world.
So, what can you do? I offer three suggestions to consider.
- Take action. Support organizations and researchers that are looking for answers. Support them financially, as a volunteer, as an activist…whatever feels right for you.
- Offer your support to a family. If you know a family with a child with autism, ask them what you can do to help.
- Get Creative. Think about what you can do to get involved in finding answers. Turn your focus towards this issue and start paying attention to increase your awareness. Listen to what you hear and discern what feels true and what doesn’t. Initiate conversations, ask questions.
And if you are a parent raising a child with autism I send you love and gratitude for all that you do to support and love your child through this journey with autism. You are the lynchpin for change. Together, we can be the voice for our children that is heard worldwide.
A list of the organizations I support .
www.defeatautismnow.org Autism Research Institute DAN!
www.taca.org Talk About Curing Autism (TACA)
www.generationrescue.org Generation Rescue
www.autismone.org Autism One, a non-profit, charity organization started by a small group of parents with children with autism.
www.iahp.org Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential
www.autismtreatmentcenter.org Teaching center for the Son-Rise Program
www.masgutovamethod.com Svetlana Masgutova Educational Institute, The Masgutova Neuro-sensory-motor Reflex Integration (MNRI) Method
Commonweal Health and Environment Program
www.php.com Parents Helping Parents, a support organization in San Jose, CA for parents of special needs children
www.americanpersonalrights.org American Rally for Personal Rights, Vaccination choice. Parental consent.
I’d love to hear from you the organizations you think are making a difference. Please join me in the quest to find answers.
