Autism Speaks

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The band Five for Fighting is generously donating $0.40 to Autism Speaks each time [THIS VIDEO] is viewed. The funds raised will go toward research studies to help find a cure for autism. When you have a moment, please watch this informative clip, featuring touching photos of a beloved daughter and her family.

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[hockeygurl03.livejournal.com]

Thankyou SO much for posting this!!! I'm definetly adding this to my journal, my younger sister is 14 and is Autistic. She has Azbergers syndrome (I hope I spelled that right!), she's really smart, but has issues.... with people... She's not "high functioning' as some people with autisim are. She's in the same level of math and science as I am... and in nearly all honors classes (except for science, because they wouldn't let her get into that class because the school insisted that she'd mess up the labs... :-(!!!!) but she hates homework... a lot... Her way of thinking about homework is that homework is silly, because if she already knows everything, why should she was to "practice" like the other kids.... so.. homework is an issue...
My mom is currently fighting against the public school board and trying to make things better for her.. she has to go to hundreds of meetings with all of these "specialists" in special education, who argue with nearly everything she says. Since she is high functioning.. in a way... they refuse to pay as much attention to her as she needs, because other kids need help as well.
I'll continue talking about this in my journal.. as obviously, this is becoming a very long post...
thankyou for posting the video on here!!!!! <3 <3