This is no ordinary geocaching trading item!

Autism Awareness is a Travel Bug Dog Tag Travel Bug, traveling from geocache to geocache on a very specific mission.

Trackable ItemIf you do not intend to log your visit on the Geocaching.com web site, please DO NOT TAKE THIS ITEM. Its travels and its progress requires you to log that it is being taken from this geocache. You will also need to log when you place it in another geocache. It's easy!

If you are willing to log your part of this Trackable's journey and place it in another geocache as soon as possible (after you log your find), grab it from this geocache.

My Current Goal:

The mission of this trackable is to help spread awarenss to anyone who may find it. If you know someone with Autism share your story in your log.

My son has been very fortunate in his Autism Journey. He was healthy and did all the appropriate things for his age group. It's like he changed overnight. He quit talking, like he just shut down into his own little world. Soon after tantrums started. He could scream for hours and hours. I dreaded change, anything different would set him off. We spent hours in therapy sessions and at hosptials doing endless tests. One day he finally started to come back to us. He began to talk, and his use of sign language faded away. He could memorize entire books and movies word for word. He's an honor student, and has been since he started school.

~Autism is a developmental disorder causing social, communication and often major behavioral challenges.

~ 1/68 children will be diagnosed with ASD this year.

~The Autism rate is higher in boys than in girls.

~The cause of ASD is unknown, and there is no cure.

~Autism varies from person to person, thats why its called Autism ''Spectrum Disorder''

~ASD is the fastest growing developmental disorder.

https://www.autismspeaks.org/

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