RULE NUMBER 1

Tomorrow I am meeting with the Sumter Rotary Club to begin the preliminary process of a scholarship competition. Seeing as how I'm only going up against people in Sumter county, I believe that I have a "pretty" good shot of winning my research funding.

I never really write anything worth reading in here, so I figured that tonight I would post on something a bit different and something that affects my day-to-day. Autism.

As a therapist for children with autism, I am everyday reminded of the struggles that both parent, child, and friend endure when faced with such a life-altering disorder.
Over the past ten years, autism rates have spiked to a record 1 per 150 persons, and though the scope/range of autism has increased, the number is still very disturbing. Autism has no cure so it is imperative that those who can get therapy recieve it at the earliest age possible; early intervention has shown the most promising results for mainstreaming.

However, most countries do not have the means to provide autism patients with good therapy. Many countries do not even have the means to diagnose those who may have developmental disorders!!

As a Rotary Scholar, my year of study would be to learn the logistics of a third-world country in the hopes that later, as a graduate student, the ratio of children with developmental behavior disorders in that same third-world country could be researched.

In any case, tomorrow is a big day for this future endeavor...hopefully all goes well (:
What I've learned today in life, love, and politics:
Life: Doughnuts are really not that hard to make.
Love: Does not grow on trees.
Politics: RULE NUMBER 1
If Hillary Clinton asks for change, you give her dollars.
If Obama asks for change, you make up poor black-man jokes.
If Ron Paul asks for change, you say "no habla englais".