Melanie O.'s blog

Hey, everybody just want to share our story with all of you. Our son, Drew, who is now 10 has autism.  Please mark the month of April as Autism Awareness month.  Here's our story:  Drew was diagnosed with autism at the age of 3 1/2 years old.  He was a happy easy going baby, and since we already had a daughther before him, we thought everything was going just fine with him.  We began to notice subtle changes in him at about 18 months of age.  He was losing some basic language.  He began to have tremendous temper tantrums.  Sometimes the temper ta