This site is about raising awareness of what 1 person’s life can be like who is impacted by autism. This autism has wide ranging impacts on that person’s family, as well. I have friends with children on the spectrum whose lives are less difficult and friends with children on the spectrum whose lives are more difficult. While I want to show the sweetness that emanates out of my girl, some days she can act like she’s filled with demons.

Holidays are a tough time around the Long house as Maddie gets thrown off her regular routine. I explain more at the beginning of this video and then I film Maddie when she is going through one of her outbursts.