The DMC Speaks All About Their Research Project

When I began raising money for the DMC at Children’s Hospital Boston, I thought it might be interesting for those who donated to understand a bit more of the effort that is being undertaking to find the causes of Autism. After all, I had my own questions about what was being done, how [...]

Julien’s First Appointment at Children’s Hospital

Last Thursday, Julien and Kerstin visited the Children’s Hospital for his evaluation. This was the appointment that we’d started trying to schedule back in February and that we finally booked in May or so. It wasn’t easy to get it and it wasn’t an easy appointment to have.
When we booked it, Julien [...]

Why You Should Choose Your Charity Carefully

Autism Diva recently reported on the Autism Speaks organization’s form 990 filing with the IRS, where she pointed out some interesting things about their operation.
 For example, she makes note of the fact that the organization lost $84,749 on a May 8th “fund-loser” that took place in New York and which included Tony Bennett (presumably as a [...]

Congratulations to the winner of our first monthly drawing

When I first started this campaign, I made a personal appeal to several of my friends, family and colleagues to make a donation. As an added incentive, I promised to hold a monthly drawing (the first 3 months to start) for a $50 gift certificate to any of the following stores:

Integrating Autistic People Into Society

The Wellesley Townsman published an article last week on my fund-raising campaign and and they keyed in on the fact that my goal is to ensure that Julien is integrated in society. The article’s author also had a child with Autism and during our interview she immediately understood what I meant by my this comment [...]

There’s No Dancing Under The Lights For Me Tonight

OK, so I ran Boston’s Run To Remember today….it wasn’t pretty, but I ran. I have no idea what temperature it was (somewhere in the 70’s), but it felt like the race ran right along the equator…I could have sworn I was in Key West or Cancun. I offer you this, of course, as [...]

The DMC Waiting List: Signs of a Broken Medical Care System?

In the course of running this fundraising campaign, I’ve been meeting with and discussing with many people what the Childrens Hospital Boston’s Developmental Medicine Center (DMC) is about and many have expressed surprise at the 9 month waiting list to be seen by a doctor. In particular, some of my friends who live outside of [...]

Do Autistic people need to be cured?

When I conceived my fundraising effort, I thought that the tagline to all my communications and promotions should be “Cure Autism”. After all, I assumed that those who are interested enough in donating to the Childrens Hospital Boston clinical research project on Autism would also be interested in seeing Autism prevented.

But then it occurred to [...]

Starting in the middle

Two days ago, I emailed all my friends and family to let them know about a quest I’ve embarked on to raise $50,000 for the Developmental Medicine Center at the Childrens Hospital Boston. This might seem like a good place to start my blog, since it is in fact a kind of start to this [...]