Tim Welsh's blog

"Don't get me started." I hear that often or say it to myself many times a day, I must have had the Autism Environment Vaccines question discussion more than 10,000 times. Two things struck me this morning. 1. How little people actually know or care to know about Autism. 2. I realized I have never had someone even from the medical community, not validate the concerns of families dealing with Autism and vaccine injury.

I travel for a living. Humans think our own hometown is wonderful & original. I got to looking and comparing notes in my head. Our villages, towns, suburbs, and cities are organized about the same everywhere. These are some of things I noticed from town to town. Also I wanted to take note of some of the changes in the last 20 years I wonder if people took the time to look around that maybe they would take the time to help fix one glaring change to the way many of our families, friends, and neighbors are living.

We all have bones in the closet and crosses to bear. A religion is supposed to help you find peace within your soul. I am a conservative independent Christian. My family is at peace with the world and death because God gave his only son to die on the cross to forgive our sins. This helps me enjoy the hour or two that Tanner lets me sleep. With the revelation that John Travolta and Kelly Preston were living a lie about their sons autism, comes many questions. I am not going to focus on their personal pain.

Wow Wow and Wow. My mind is spinning. I met, heard, and saw so many real Autism Advocates today. I am just overwhelmed. I was able to be around at set up on Wednesday night. I was able to see a few speakers on Thursday. Today the conference was in full swing. I was able to actually have conversations with the people doing the research, fighting the legal battles, writing the blogs, selling the supplements, selling support services, writing the books, and those parents that are helping their children with Autism.

I am about to attempt the impossible 3x over. Figure out what motivates people. Motivate them to action. Do it in 140 letters or less. When it comes to Autism there are many generic sayings and phases that mean little to the majority right now. "1 in 150" "1 every 20 minutes"? The odds say its time to make a difference? Its time to listen? well these do not make someone take action. It has been said people will not act until they feel the pain. That is my task.

I am very excited to be a new blogger on the Autism One Site. I bring to the table over six years of studying the Autism issues for approximately 100 hours a week. So I figure I have over 31,000 hours of study time in. I have read studies, blogs, emails, posts, books, and have lived with a non verbal son dealing with Autism all that time. I have been helping raise awareness on all fronts. We have many irons in the fire and need all hands on deck.