It is Saturday night about 11:15 in the evening. The babies are asleep and me and the hubby are watching Jools Holland. We have been watching for years, and if you have never checked his show out you should. Your life will be a much greater place for having done so. Anyway, I mention to my better half that Jools has a foundation for autism. "So what?", he replies, "what has his foundation done for us?".

Mmmmm.....well they have done nothing that I know of. Have they done anything for you? All of these celebrities and their foundations....what do they do? I know Dan Marino has a foundation and Doug Floutie does too. I am not sure what they do for us or our son. When I watch them giving commentary on football games I never hear them mention an autistic event. I never read about events they are hosting in my area and how the proceeds may help me and my family. At least "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" came to Nashville and rebuilt a school after the May floods.

Follow up:

Recently I was at Puxlic (our local grocery store) and ran into one of my old advisers from Middle Tennessee State University. She is now teaching Special Needs Education classes instead of advising. She is a wonderful lady. Of course the subject of Sir Dantes came up and the effects his autism has on the whole family. I ended up deciding that I wanted to donate my services to the education of autism whether it be stuffing escalopes to speaking to a class on the subject (after all secondary ed. was my first minor and I only lack one class). She set me up with a another professor who volunteers he time to Autism Speaks.

Sorry...I just can't behind that. I need to let her know.

According to Ari Ne’eman, a White House Appointee and a person on the scale, nearly 90% of their earnings go to paying staff and the money that doesn't goes towards looking for the cause instead of going to services. Well, guess what? We need services! I am at the point that I could care less why and am at at the point of "hey there...how 'bout a little help here?".

Services keep getting cut. I think I wrote a blog about this sometime ago. I would have to search the archives but I am pretty sure that I informed all of our readers about the cuts being made in Tennessee with the Tennessee Early Intervention Services and other non-profits. And I am pretty sure I included the cost of the services, that are normally offered free or on a sliding scale, and how most of us normal families would have a hard time affording the services. Yet everyone seems to agree that early intervention and continued education would be beneficial to our children.

Yea, you can apply for a grant. You may wish to use your grant towards education, to start a non-profit of your own, or maybe pay the bills. What are your chances of getting one? Who knows. After all, only about 1 in 94 other families need help too. So, what do we do? I don't know. I just want relief for our son, our family, and your family. I guess I will just keep blogging and hope that someone will hear. Good night to all.