Dear IF readers,

Sorry to be out of touch for a little while. It really takes me awhile to get my legs after a trip. I go away from my children and go into another gear entirely. I am 41 years old and not around my children, I act much slower and spacey. Around my 3 and 5 year old climbing the walls, jumping out of a car window, running through parking lots, throwing balls at glass window- boys boys boys - I am like a patrol officer in the midst of a high speed chase, the adrenaline is pumping. I shift back up to meet the boys level and I am in bed for a week by 8 p.m. That is usually when I write this blog, after I tuck the boys in. Sorry again.

April is Autism Awareness month and there are so many books, articles, fundraising and awareness activities this month. I think what I respond to mostly is the range affecting any child or adult. It is broad, very broad. I know that when my boys are going through something in even what is considered a normative range, I am confounded until I can understand and focus in on the solution. I am sure that all parents working with an autistic child wants solutions and a focus to the range of workable possibilities. And love and support from others to recharge.

I think what is also difficult is the beginning, early childhood diagnosis. So often a parent, an educator, a physician wants a child appropriately developed to make a fair assessment and even order tests. I have heard parents speaking of the early years before a diagnosis as the hardest. These are the years of second guessing, confusion, helplessness that cause such stress to the already stressful job of raising and nurturing a child 24/7.

Please go read the ASA site at http://www.autism-society.org. And please give any parent your know with a child with special needs the love and support to recharge and keep on keeping on. My love and support, Cat Wayland

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