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My name is Kristy Summers. I am a single mom of two young men. My youngest is autistic at 25 years old.
As a baby, my son Dante did not cry much, and as a toddler he kept to himself. He had an "old man" expression. He hardly laughed at all. If he did it was at odd times. He carried around the primary colors either one of those baby keys or the bigger legos. It was always red, yellow, green and blue.
It was not until my mother-in-law said to me one morning that she believed Dante had autism.
Autism? That word was completely foreign to me. When I went back to work finding child care for him became challenging. Centers never seemed to be equipped to handle Dante. He was a handful with his sensory issues, and behavioral issues. He would escape because the environment was too much for him.
I created Joining the Pieces Foundation to come along side centers, group homes, and other organization that support special needs to help provide assistance to give adequate care to help their patrons to grow into productive adults.
With that in mind, Joining the Pieces is in process of raising funds to create a working ranch for the behavioral issue autistic adults. One thing I have learned for the self abusive, screaming autistic adults is this is their voice to say something is wrong. Behavioral issues really can equal other issues that manifest as behavioral because they do not have the words to say "help me". I have seen this with my son over the years with different things that have caused him great deal of pain. Casein protein was the first thing. Once I removed all dairy, the behaviors stopped. These days it is not as easy with sense pressure migraines.
I want to create an environment of clean eating and exercise while they grow the food, take care of the cows and the horses in their own gifts and strength. These are adults that can take pride in their accomplishments too, and I want to create the opportunity for them to do that.
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