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07/03/2024

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing Importance, unless suspended in their Operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the Accommodation of large Districts of People, unless those People would relinquish the Right of Representation in the Legislature, a Right inestimable to them, and formidable to Tyrants only.

He has called together Legislative Bodies at Places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the Depository of their public Records, for the sole Purpose of fatiguing them into Compliance with his Measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly Firmness his Invasions on the Rights of the People.

He has refused for a long Time, after such Dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the Dangers of Invasion from without, and Convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their Migrations hither, and raising the Conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the Tenure of their Offices, and the Amount and Payment of their Salaries.

He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harrass our People, and eat out their Substance.

He has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our Legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the World:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pre-tended Offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an arbitrary Government and enlarging its Boundaries, so as to render it at once an Example and fit Instrument for introducing the same absolute Rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our Seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns, and destroyed the Lives of our People.

He is, at this Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous Ages, and totally unworthy of the Head of a civilized Nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the Executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic Insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes and Conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble Terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated Injury. A Prince, whose Character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a free People.

Nor have we been wanting in Attentions to our British Brethren. We have warned them from Time to Time of Attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the Circumstances of our Emigration and Settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and Magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the Ties of our common Kindred to disavow these Usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our Connections and Correspondence. They too have been deaf to the Voice of Justice and of Consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the Necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of Mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace, Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly Publish and Declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES, that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political Connection between them and the State of Great-Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which INDEPENDENT STATES may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

07/03/2024

WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.

WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the present King of Great-Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.

05/08/2024

Zek is 31 and is graduating in June from our local community college. He has been attending part time since 2018 and is receiving his A.A. He has carried a B average throughout his time and is still attending, now taking Electronics courses.

This has been something that was very important to him, to attend college and get his degree and HE DID IT!
Graduation Stuff :-D

So excited for Zek, I know how hard he's worked to accomplish something he wanted very much!

He had to take many remedial courses prior to those that applied to his degree due to his Autism, ADD, SPD, speech difficulties, Dysgraphia & Dyscalculia

04/20/2024

27 years and Counting

In 1995 Autism was 1 in 10,000
In 2020 ASD is diagnosed 1 in 36
That does not happen with better diagnostics, there so much more going on.
I wrote this in 2014.

My look at the past 20+ years of Autism

First, let me express I FULLY BELIEVE in genetically based ADD/HD, Autism/Asperger & other LDs, they all run throughout our family, although mostly undiagnosed. BUT that being said, there is an OBVIOUS problem going on here. When my son was diagnosed in 1995 (born 10/92) the rates were still 1 in 10,000.

The original diagnostic description of Autism by Dr. Leo Kanner in 1943 was expressly Infantile Autism, the children showed signs prior to 12 months and primarily from birth. He also stated in his work that he saw older people with the same symptoms but they were being diagnosed with Schizophrenia, MR and other things and were locked away in institutions or hidden at home.

In 1944, Hans Asperger came up with the diagnostic description for Asperger's Syndrome and many of the traits were the same as Kanner was seeing in infants, yet Asperger was seeing them in older children. Asperger's research was lost during WWII and was not found again until 1980 when Lorna Wing brought it to the forefront.

There was NEVER any regression in Autistic Children. The ASD rates did go up quite a bit when Asperger's became recognized and a part of the DSM, but again not significant enough to be where we are at today. There has also been an increase in diagnoses because of greater understanding of Autism & Asperger's and the understanding of ASD presenting differently in girls, but it is not the cause of this explosion. Yet the children being diagnosed today are regressing at various ages. They also have various health issues...gut pain, eczema, food allergies, etc....NONE of this was ever part of Autism or Asperger's Syndrome.

Trust me, through the years, we moms have gone through all the questions and done all the little polls in groups and even at Autism Conferences. Here's some of the things we've questioned during that almost 20 year journey:

How many of us had vaccines while we were pregnant?

How many had antibiotics while pregnant?

Usually for a UTI?

How many of us had the Rhogam shot?

How many of us had a prolonged labor?

How many of us had our water broke?

How many of us had induced labor with Pitocin?

How many of us had forceps used on our child?

How many of us had Internal Fetal Monitoring?

How many of our kids had any type of distress during the delivery?

How many were jaundiced?

How many of our kids were slow from birth?

How many of our kids had vaccines and which vaccines did you start to see reactions?

How many had a lot of ear infections?

How many have gut troubles?

The list goes on and on.

Prior to 1996, there was still Thimerosol in the vaccines, but the 1st vax was given at 2mos old and that was the DTP, not the DTaP. Then in 1996, the vax companies were req'd to get rid of the Thimerosol, but it still remains in very minute percentages in a few vaccines and still quite a bit in the flu vaccine, which is pushed on pregnant women. There are MANY ingredients in vaccines that assault the body, both adult and child, neuro-toxins, chemicals, various animal cells, cancer cells, aborted fetal cells.

Most of the diseases that we are vaccinated for, can be cured easily with Vitamins/Minerals. The primary reason diseases spread more in years past was because of unsanitary water supply. Every disease was on the decline when the vaccine was introduced, it had nothing to do with the vaccine.

And if vaccines actually worked and the 'herd immunity' theory worked why would there be this "tremendous" measles outbreak in Orange County, Calif? Of the 21 cases, of which 20 of those were up-to-date on their measles vaccine and the other person caught it from one of the vaccinated. (Stats at time I wrote this)

What is being diagnosed today as Autism, is not autism, it is a neuro-developmental regression caused by environmental toxins both in-utero, like amalgam fillings (49% mercury) leaching into your baby's system, vaccines, infections while pregnant and also the components of the vaccines actually causing gene mutations during pregnancy. A human body was never designed to have mercury, aluminum, ethylene glycol, alcohol, peanut oil, live cancer cells, dead cancer cells, mouse, cow, pig, monkey, horse & aborted fetal material injected into it and so much more. Vaccines is part of the reason for the increase in peanut allergies & egg too. Mercury is known to cause holes in the intestines. Aluminum is known to cause neurological problems and they've linked Autism & Alzheimers too. Alzheimers & Autism are not all that different.

Also, we have the creation of GMO foods, which at this point the top crops are corn (90%), wheat (80%), sugar (70%) & rice (70%). When insects eat those lovely GMO foods, their stomachs explode. So, what do you think is happening to ours over time?

We have high fructose corn syrup, which is extremely high in mercury because of the way they process it. It is in almost every food. We have all the fake sugars, which are horrific and increase obesity, diabetes, food cravings, tumors, infertility and cancers. We also have all the toxic garbage in our make-up, cleaning supplies, etc.

All of this is turning our bodies into toxic waste pools, which is why the increase in asthma, ASD, all LDs, autoimmune disorders and more!! When our bodies were strong and healthy we could fight off various things like Lyme disease, Fibromyalgia, and others, which has only become prevalent because of our weakened immune systems.

The increased number of ASD diagnoses has occurred mostly because of a toxic environment and these children do not have ASD, they have environmentally induced, neuro-developmental toxicity and it should not be called ASD.

As far as the evolutionary process, why would the human race evolve, really devolve into a weaker, sickly species?

The children being diagnosed today that also have medical issues MUST have those treated first!! How can a child process therapy or academics when they are in pain? How do YOU function when you have the flu or even just a headache? How do you expect a child with gut pain, ear pain or even pain in their head because of brain swelling due to the toxins in the vaccines?

If you look at the higher ASD statistics in other countries there are 2 common ties....the quantity of vaccines & the food supply.

Our children can and there most definitely are children that have the medical difficulties and when those are fixed (cured) they still have ASD traits.

Those that do not have the medical issues need therapies and they need them young. BUT that does not mean all hope is lost either, if you or your child got a later diagnosis. For many generations, there was no help for those with developmental disabilities, LDs, etc....yet from those quirky folks we have Einstein, Edison, Mozart, and more.

There is so much available on the internet and so much that has been done in research in the medical and educational fields for our children, but it is still not enough. There's also the issue of our medical and educational industries not wanting to help our children because they are not looking at the root cause and getting to the bottom of the issues. The medical field refuses to look at their own science, instead they keep pressing on blindly saying its genetics and better diagnostics, which is lies. There are over 100 science studies that state that vaccines are definitely contributing to neuro-developmental and health issues.

Do the research for yourself. Don't count on your doctors or your educational professionals to give you the right information because they won't and what works for one person or family does not work for all.

Those on the Spectrum & parents are the best ones to speak with because they have walked this journey, some for a short time and some for many years, like myself.

Erika Schron, copyright 2014.

04/20/2024

Not all ASD is genetically based, not all is medical injury, some are both.

There are those with ASD who feel it is just part of who they are, that they are neurodiverse individuals.
There are those who cannot tell us how they feel because they have no words.
There are those who cannot tell us how they feel because their voice was taken away and they no longer have words.
There are those who scream, have seizures, injure themselves, injure others, they can be obsessive, they may not sleep or sleep too much.
The life of Autism is a vast spectrum and can be devastating to the family, to the person with Autism.
Their life with Autism may be frustrating, enlightening, scary, overwhelming, or just a different way of looking at the world around them.

02/24/2024

https://undivided.io/resources/list-of-accommodations-for-ieps-and-504s-210

Before your meeting, review this list of IEP and 504 accommodations. Empower your child with the right educational supports and strategies.

01/04/2024

There's some great information on this site, especially the Letter of Intent. Parents of special needs children/adults MUST always have things prepared for the 'what if?'

A library of FREE learning resources for families including downloadable publications and online library.

10/04/2023

https://youtu.be/4_hNovNHQ0M

Temple Did It, and I Can, Too - Winner of a 2015 Academic’s Choice Award, this book explains the obstacles Dr. Temple Grandin faced while growing up, the ru...

10/17/2022

We so desperately need a world where people question everything.

08/10/2022

As many families consider, perhaps for the first time, other education options beyond their local public school, they may be surprised to discover the variety of new learning models available to them.