A rift in the family of Autism Speaks

I just finished reading a story in the New York Times about a rift in the family of the people who founded Autism Speaks. I will be upfront and say I am not a big supporter of Autism Speaks because they give money to people who believe autism is an environmental condition. I mean if you are an Australian how is your child's autism going to be caused by a vaccination where our MMR's do not contain Thiomersal, the preservative being blamed for causing autism. If Autism Speaks didn't give that faction and the Cure Autism Now faction money I would be 100% behind them, but all those factions do is draw money away from programs that could actually help people instead of giving them something to blame or some false hope that a cure can be found for their child.

For the record both my boys are up to date with their vaccinations, Alec had his 4 yr needles after we had a diagnosis of ASD, Riley is almost due for his 4 yr needles and he isn't autistic.

I would do anything I thought would help Alec, and we have done intensive speech therapy and almost 2 years of therapy through the Autism Association Early Intervention Centre, and then every waking moment at home is a therapy session, this has what has had results for us. It isn't something someone else can do for you, therapy is hands on full time, we see the results every day.

I yelled

I never yell at Alec, I call out to summons him but never do I yell at him, until yesterday. Sometimes you just get to the end of the line, there is nothing left to haul in and you snap. I've had such a problem communicating with him the last ten days. He missed almost 2 weeks of school and was allowed to do whatever he liked. I know he does hear directions and questions but can look like he doesn't.

I yelled just answer me!!!!!!!!!!

I had been trying to get him to get dressed for school for almost an hour, by this time we are now running late for school. It was awful, he told me he was never going to have a lie down cuddle with me at bed time ever again. This was to be my punishment for yelling.

Sometimes you run out of resources, sometimes you yell instead of walking away. Yelling relieves a little bit of the pent up frustration but neither action gets any result at all.