World of Autism

Well, this has been a really busy year for us (the reason I haven’t updated in so long!)

Since I last checked in, we’ve had several life changing experiences happen to us; always a challenge in the world of autism…

1.  My husband left his job of many years (he was offered a good early retirement option, and took it rather than taking the chance of being laid off later!) 

2.  We decided to leave Delaware. We moved there for the Delaware Autism Program, but over the years we watched the program degrade more and more, and in his final classroom there, Lucas was actually LOSING skills (see previous articles in this blog).  It was time to help him begin a new life ‘after school’.

3.  We prepared our Delaware home and sold it, then moved to the great state of South Dakota.  In addition to wonderful people and unbelievable scenery, South Dakota is also a great place to run a business.  Now that Lucas is finished with school, we can really focus on helping him to become even more involved in his job at LucasWorks. 

4.  Only a few short months after our move to South Dakota, I had to return to Virginia, as my mother was dying of cancer. 

Lucas’ grandmother died on Halloween (a whole new experience for Lucas, made that much worse because of his association of Grammy’s death with the Halloween specters of ghosts, goblins and cemeteries.)

So there you go, the short version of 2010:

• A job change for my husband,
•  A major move,
• Lucas leaving school,
• The death of my mom. 

Any one of these is a major event, but taken all together in one year, I say “Good riddance, 2010; don’t let the door hit you on the way out!” 

I hope everyone else’s year was a little calmer than ours was, and look forward to getting back to sharing life in the world of autism in 2011.  I plan to get back to regular updates in the next week or two.

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