The other day Mom was looking at sitemeter and found a blog that had a link to my website on it. The most recent post on this woman's blog is about how her son turned four, and what they were going to do for his birthday party. She asked that in exchange for presents that the kids bring a small donation for my service dog. Did I mention she's never met me? Mom was quite moved--it's amazing to see how people who don't even know me are doing extraordinarily special things to help me get this dog. Thank you.
Love,
Aaron
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Diary of an Autistic Escape Artist
My Story
Hi. I'm Aaron. I'm 8 years-old and I have autism. I can't talk yet, but I'm close. I do have a little problem (okay a big problem) with running away. I'm stealthy, fast, sneaky and silent.
Because I have such a problem with escaping, I need help from a service dog to help prevent me from running away. A dog that would block me when I was trying to run. This would help me and my parents a lot. See, it's hard to go to the park or beach because they spend the whole time chasing me (I have a brother and sister too). It's hard to go to friend and family get-togethers because they spend the entire time chasing me and can't visit with other people.
Check out my Diary of an Autistic Escape Artist for some of my escape stories. This would be an actual service dog so it could go to the store, school, and vacations with me. It would be my companion, and would help keep me safe.
The only roadblock is that a service dog is expensive. My parents have decided to go with an organization called Brigadoon Youth and Service Dogs. The fee for a service dog from Brigadoon is $5,000. That's where this blog comes into play. Getting a service dog is a long process. It will probably be 2009 before a dog could come home with me permanently.
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About my dog's trainer
5 comments:
Aww- that is so sweet!
wow that is great........doggie for Aaron here we come
I am so touched that you would mention our "birthday party" idea on your blog. We are so grateful to be given an opportunity to bless someone with autism. We have had our share of stuggles with Autism and would give anything to bless others as we have been blessed. All of the families that donated were so touched and moved by Aaron's story that we were able to raise a wonderful contribution. We just made our Birthday donation for Aaron and are so thankful to be a part of this!!! Thank you!!! We look forward to helping out in the future!!!
I'm not surprised. We live in a wonderful world surrounded by gifts from God. It was his way of saying Happy Birthday.
Let's keep the money coming. Once we get Aaron's doggy, there's no stopping us from how many other children we can help.
Keep dreaming Big!
yeah liz & friends. thank you again for doing this. your family is so special to me.
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