I got de fire in my belly today — and those flames are dancing around Nat’s future!\u00a0 Where the F is he going to live in a year and a half?\u00a0 I ain’t gonna wait around for no stinkin’ entitlements to kick in — or not.\u00a0 Today I made two appointments:\u00a0 one with a group called Specialized Housing, who have been setting up group homes for decades!!!\u00a0 Another is Jewish Family and Child Services, part of Combined Jewish Philanthropies.\u00a0 I am going to go to these people and pick their brains dry.\u00a0 Call me the Housing Vulture.<\/p>\n
Here’s the fantasy — and don’t tell me I can’t do it!!! As an autism mom, you must know that is the best way to get us going and doing it!!!!!!!\u00a0 I am going to gather 8 or so guys like Nat (of course I’ve known them for years — stay in touch with those autie families, folks — in the end, they might just become your family).\u00a0 I am going to go to our Housing Authority.\u00a0 I am going to find a fixer upper near my town.\u00a0 We will all pool our money and buy it and fix it up.\u00a0 We will get assistance from philanthropic organizations.\u00a0 We will pool our services to pay for one qualified live-in staffer.\u00a0 The guys in the House will share a kitchen and a livingroom and have chores to the best of their abilities.\u00a0 I will try my damnedest to get a job coach for my darling so he can continue to be the best darn worker Papa Gino’s has ever seen!!!<\/p>\n
If I succeed, or when I succeed, I will write about how to do it.\u00a0 Autism Parents of the World, Unite!\u00a0 Our kids will not be lost. They will have a future, we just have to really really plan and try to stay awake and alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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