Sunday, December 28, 2008

Autism Tales and Special Needs Stories(tm)

Autism Tales and Special Needs Stories(tm)

The Historic Walk for Marcus, The Drive for Rebecca

The Drive for Rebecca

Rebecca is smiling because she and her family drove cross-country in 2002, kicking off an ongoing
effort to increase awareness, raise $10 million to advance research and help establish new schools

The Walk For Marcus

Note: not estabish yet into the internet and raising money and making the world aware, but soon... hopefully by spring 2009.
We are still searching for a better quality of life for Marcus, like Rebecca I want him to smile too and
through captured memories, I believe it to be possible and like Rebecca's family and mine it is an immense well
of determination.


We did the same thing for 2008 from September 06 - 30th with my autistic brother Marcus
Chookomoolin he is 13 years old and the first ever to walk across the largest muskeg on the planet in Ontario from
Hawily Lake to Peawanuck. An impossible trek that was said it couldn't be done so we kept it a
secret from our own town folks in Peawanuck, for we didn't want my grandmother Caroline Chookomoolin to
worry, in which they did anyway but they did not realize we attempted this until we arrived.
It was documented with my Sony HD camcorder and I plan to put it on the internet and also with
photos that my father took. The odds were against us, my father was at a retiring age, over weight,
diabetic and my mother smokes and she was also over weight. The hike was the hardest thing I've ever done in
my entire life, so is living with autism and I guess that's how we got by, we were strong mentally but
very weak physically at the start of our journey but we never gave up, I wasn't ready for this and we didn't properly prepare,
we all were not prepared and so is living with autism.

I'm starting on the trailer and hopefully finish the rest of the film by Spring 2009. Like in our quest of a cure for autism
we were alone, no one knew and no one really understand the real condition of autism, I guess the weight of our journey will rest on my shoulders
and that I am alone with the film. I won't give up I tell you that right now; people need to know how serious autism is and what it can do to our society
and the possibility of it escalating to a critical status, which our survival is threaden as human species if this does not point us to the root and cause of the problem soon,
and if it gets worse; can even mean the extinction of man if we all fall into this spell, 2008 is not yet enough for people
to be alarm of this hidden epibemic because the ratio is 1:150 of the occurrence of autism or the chances of your child being born autistic. In 1970, the ratio was 1:70,000 that's almost 40 years ago,
but if it becomes 1:2... what do we do than?

Monday, December 22, 2008

Is Autism on the Rise?

Is Autism on the Rise?

About.com: http://www.cdc.gov/NCBDDD/autism/asd_common.htm

About.com: http://www.cdc.gov/NCBDDD/autism/asd_common.htm

Autism Research launch Dec.23 2008

Hello, I'm looking for information about austism specifically when was the first documented in the history of man. I do know it was diagnose in 1941; 10 years after the use of thimerosal, or ethyl mercury in vaccinations in 1931. In 1970 the incidence of autism was 1 in 10,000 and this year it is 1 in 150 (2008), with male:female predominance of 4:1.