It all started when my son was two years Old. I noticed something wasn’t right. He wasn’t meeting the milestones that I had read up about it. Him being my first born, I noticed something wasn’t right. He wasn’t crawling/walking on time. He wasn’t talking or saying the basic words like dada and other simple word. I started taking him to doctors when he was two years old. Throughout his years, I could tell something was wrong. It didn’t seem right on his behaviors and his aggression or how he would communicate. I been through to several doctors, through several types of test for my son. Once he got near age Nine, he was put into a behavioral hospital for a month. After I had sat down to discuss things with the doctors, they told me he had been diagnosed with him being in spectre of Autism. There was all these years I was wondering what was wrong. How can I fix this? What doctor does he need? Was a bunch of confusion. He had been diagnosed with xyy syndrome, So at that time I didn’t know that autism could be part of that problem, but with all I been through in all the years, all the tears I shed, just wanting the answer and when I did. Its hard news to accept, but in the meantime, its nothing you can change, but to accept it. Josh is doing better then he was before. Yes me and my son have been on a journey with all sorts of bumps in the road,we had our trials and challenges, but I have learn to deal with it better and I know through this on-going journey that there will be always light that shines down the road to get us through this and maybe one day the peices of the puzzle will fit together for all the children in the world that have Autism.

Amy
Algonquin, IL