Our son, Sir Dantes, has autism.

I started blogging because I found it therapeutic to put my thoughts “down on paper”. It helped me to sort out what I was thinking. Then I started seeing how many people were actually reading my blogs and that got me, well…excited. It seemed as though I may be actually helping people. So, it is sad to write this blog. This will be my final blog on Autism Epicenter.

Follow up:

This site is to be shut down over the weekend. While it pains me I understand and completely empathize with the reasons of the site’s founder. I am grateful for the opportunity he gave me. Since beginning my blogging here not only have I developed a following of readers, I have been published in on-line magazines and sites. I have had developers of products designed for autistic children pitched to me to endorse and share. Therefore, I have made a decision to start my own site.

Of course, being a technically challenged person, it will take me a couple of weeks to get a site up and going. I ask for your patience while I learn how to do this. After all, I still have to create a domain name and there are a lot of sites out there for autism. For the time being I will post “mini” blogs on the Facebook page which for now will remain to be called Autism Epicenter. Please visit it. I share a lot of information there and share the adventures of Sir Dantes and our family. Of course, when I get my site up and running it will be announced on the Facebook page.

Sir Dantes is now nearly seven years old. I think that the years to come, with the onset of puberty, will hold many challenges for him, me, his sister, and his father. I look forward to sharing these experiences with you so that you can know that we face these challenges together.

However, for now, I bid you a fond farewell. I wish the best to the site’s founder and his family. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.