Welcome to our Autism Awareness Online site.  I hope this can become your resource or tool in your search to find out more about autism.  Our family is blessed with our 8 year old autistic daughter. We can all work together to find the missing puzzle piece to autism.

You may be visiting our site or many different reasons.  You may be a parent or a family member of an autistic child, a autism educator, or maybe just someone who is interested in learning more about autism or finding answers to your questions on autism.  This site was designed and started because of our beautiful autistic daughter.  She is interwoven throughout the entire site.  Most of us know that autism has now grown to a rate of 1 out of 166.  Just released in February 2007, that statistic has now grown to be 1 out of 150 children are now diagnosed with autism and 80% of all autistic people are under the age of 18.  When I read that the other day about the percentage of autistic people that are under the age of 18 I was completely shocked (I think my jaw dropped to the floor, LOL).  But on a serious note, I think that is simply staggering and it makes me wonder
 "Why?".  By now it seems like if you do not have someone in your family who has an autistic child that you know someone who does.  Is it our environment, mercury, toxins, or maybe something else that still has to be researched.  But I say, we are all in this together to help find that missing puzzle piece.  The rate autism is growing they are now saying that within 7 years it will be 1 out of every 7 young families that will have an autistic child in it. Lets find that puzzle piece everyone.

Your Friends at Autism Awareness Online

Everyone here at Autism Awareness Online have gone through a terrible tragedy and felt that those who visit our site are like family and you would want to know.  My name is Kristena and I am the owner and creator of Autism Awareness Online.  My husband’s name is Keith.  I created and started this site because our daughter Mariana was diagnosed with autism at the tender age of three.  Mariana got sick on July 1, 2008.  We got a call from her school saying she had diarrhea and we needed to pick her up.  And to make a long story short we ultimately took her off of life support on July 16, 2008.  She passed away that day and is now up in heaven without autism.  But her memory will continue to live on and her father and I will continue to fight for autism and to help find a cure.  Please remember Mariana and visit our site often.  She would have wanted it this way.  I have started another website that is a memorial dedication website to her.  Please visit her website at www.mommysangelinheaven.com.  If you would like to read the whole story on how she got sick and why she ultimately passed away, please click here for her story. 

Thank you all for your love and support through this incredibly hard time in our families lives.

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