April 2011

It was in 1972 that Pervis and I decided to have another baby. The Spinners had their first gold record and the future looked bright and shiny. Pervis Jr (PJ) was born in 1975 and the family was overjoyed at our new addition. It was  months after his first birthday when the doctor told me […]

When your child is diagnosed with autism, it is a crushing blow (sometimes the crushing blow comes from your child). Living with a child handicapped by autism is exhausting and stressful. We are under a lot of stress in the home. Then we are under a lot of pressure from professionals (and ourselves)  to try

If you are the parent of a child with autism (or any other disability) you are in my thoughts and prayers. We have so much stress and pressure in trying to raise our children. I don’t know what you are going through, but I know you are going through something. We have the same problems that

I have been abused by autism, defeated by autism, depressed by autism, embarrassed by autism, exhausted by autism, overwhelmed by autism. I never thought I would get to the point where I would say that I am inspired by autism.  It only took 30 years. “Inspired By Autism” is the title of my book in

April is National Autism Month, so today’s entry is about the other Pervis Jackson, our son Pervis Jr (PJ) who is handicapped by autism. PJ was born in 1975 when cases of autism were extremely rare. The statistics then were one child in every 10,000 was diagnosed with autism. I had never heard of the