Autism One 2009... another great experience

Just packing up now as Autism One comes to a close. It has been another wonderful year and I am so glad I was able to bring all my kids and husband this year. My older boys are 14 and 13. Soon they will be choosing educational pathways that will lead them to a career. I thought I would bring them this year so they could learn a little bit about biomedicine. I didn't make them go to any of the presentations, I just wanted them here to see that this is real and to give them some direction towards choosing (hopefully) a career in biomedicine. I am trying to get them to be the kind of doctors or researchers that we all dream about. I did bring them to see Jenny McCarthy speak so they knew other moms out there were just as crazy about all this stuff as me. My older boys don't see a lot of parents around us in our rural town in Canada, so they think I am a bit coo koo. Now they get it though and understand that this is real and what their mom is doing to help their twin baby brothers get better is endorsed by many doctors, researches, and other parents. (Hopefully this will lessen the eye rolls I get from them when I tell them about some new protocol I want to try.)
I am so glad I brought my twins again this year. They were a little crazy around Stan Kurtz. Obviously he has some sort of kid connection because my kids were all over him, (and he graciously engaged them...) I think more parents should bring their children that are in recovery so others around can be inspired to help their children and that this is real.
Well I have some packing to do so I better go. I will recap our experience here with more detail later.
Cindy Nickreson