Ilene Krom, Neighbor

I&#39;m a happily married stay-at-home-mom to 3 wonderful children living in Germantown, MD.  My eldest is a typically developing 6 year old first grader.  I also have a set of girl/boy twins who will soon be 5, both diagnosed with Classic Autism when they were 26 months old.  My daughter has also been diagnosed with ADHD.<br><br>Life is not what I imagined it would be at this stage, but it&#39;s still my life, and it&#39;s good.  We have good days and we have bad days, just like everyone else.  I started blogging to cope with things not progressing the ways that I wanted them to go.  Sometimes I vent about problems.  Sometimes I share in a glorious moment.  Sometimes I try to educate others.  It really depends on what I feel like saying when I sit down at the computer to &#34;blog&#34;.  But I do promise that everything I write is honest and heartfelt, even though I may contradict myself from time to time as I learn new things.

But I have made it my mission to try to convince others to simply &#34;get it&#34;.  Autism is real.  Autism affects 1:110 children; 1:70 boys and the numbers are increasing at an alarming rate.  No one understands what causes autism so it&#39;s not something that we can really prevent.  We can just address the problems as they arise.

My personal blog can be found at http://www.myfamilysexperiencewithautism.blogspot.com.