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Martin, thank you so much for sharing your story. It touched me deeply. Your son seemed like a real nice young man and I'm happy to know he was blessed with a good home, caring Church leaders and most of all, good friends. I hope the same for my three autistic children.

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Martin, I am sorry to hear of your son's death. I hope you find peace and comfort through your memories of your son. It sounds like he was incredible! I have found that my autistic children have taught me and those around us so much. It is truly a blessing. I have one son that is 9 with mild autism and my 5 year old has the Asperger's form of Autism. I have a friend from college that has Asperger's. She recently (in April) started a blog about how she uses her autism to help others. She sees her autism as a blessing. She shares on her blog her perspective of having grown up with autism and how she perceive things. Her name is Tara, and she now works with a family that has a non-verbal autistic child. Her blog has helped me learn to understand more about my children and how to help them so much! [..]

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Study finds mom's age, health may play larger role in autism
Fraternal twins were focus of latest look at syndrome

CHICAGO - Most of the risk of autism has been blamed by experts on inherited genes. Now one of the largest studies of twins and autism shifts the focus to the womb, suggesting that the mother's age and health may play a larger role than thought. Ref. Source 7

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Abortion Of Kids With Autism Doesn't See Children as Blessings

Autism Spectrum Disorder, which runs the gamut from profoundly disabled to high-functioning individuals capable of living fairly normal lives, affects millions of families: 1 out of every 1,000 births today are autistic kids.

As I have told you over the past two days, the families of these children, like my grandson Max, don't see these children as burdens but, instead, as blessings. Not because the parents are in "denial," but because they love their children, and that love has helped them to see what is really important and where human worth really lies.

Unfortunately, there are many others, unlike these parents, who believe that parents and society would be better off if kids like Max were never born.

And these days, pre-natal testing allows doctors, insurance companies, and prospective parents to determine which babies in the womb will be so-called "normal and healthy," and which will be born with handicaps. Which is why more and more of them identified with handicaps, like Down Syndrome, are being aborted.

The demonic "logic" behind targeting people with Down Syndrome can be applied to anyone with disabilities. A combination of fear, concern over the costs of caring for these kids, desires for a "perfect" child can prove irresistible. Medical technology may never enable us to "cure" things like autism, but it may enable us to identify - and target - autistic people in the womb. Ref. Source 3

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Special Needs: Easy to Love, Hard to Raise

Tonight, she and Bartholomew are facing each other in a circle at the Sharing Place, here for the Utah Easy to Love, Hard to Raise parent support group that Bartholomew and another mom at her kid's school, Jen Levy, started. Levy's son Hudson, 3, has autism. Ref. Source 2

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Autistic Boy Scout earns 132 merit badges

But two things set him apart. One is that he's earned 132 merit badges - every possible Boy Scout merit badge he could earn. The other is that Nate is autistic. Nate's mother, Sandy Christensen, said that Nate tests somewhere in the middle of the autism spectrum. One wouldn't easily guess that when talking to him. Ref. Source 6

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1 in 47 Utah children has autism, new estimates say

The results from 2008 data, released Thursday, found autism rates jumped 157 percent in Utah from 2002 to 2008. Meanwhile, the prevalence of autism increased 78 percent nationwide over the same time period, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study. Ref. Source 3

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From this most recent General Conference here are some related quotes:

Elder Rasband: Special Lessons

Then in quoting James Faust: