Comments on: Surfboards, Autism, Pearl Jam and Incubus http://www.athlebrities.com/2009/10/02/surfboards-autism-pearl-jam-and-incubus/ Changing the world, one athlete at a time. Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:43:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bensmyson http://www.athlebrities.com/2009/10/02/surfboards-autism-pearl-jam-and-incubus/comment-page-1/#comment-49209 Bensmyson Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:46:42 +0000 http://www.athlebrities.com/?p=4689#comment-49209 I have never been so totally grateful to any one organization in my life as I am to Surfers Healing. These guys are the kind of men I truly want to be. They are all about love and sharing. Just one look at the cute little boy on the board with Izzy speaks volumes.... to me, because that's my son Ben. He is 3 years old, diagnosed with autism at 18 months after a vaccine injury took all his vocabulary, his eye contact, his awareness of his surroundings and replaced them with blank stares, seizures, fevers, temper tantrums and sensory issues that among other things causes him to hate wearing wet clothes, couldn't even stand for a drop of water to get on his clothes. Yet this little boy took to the water and chilly air and the stranger that paddled him away from the only two people he really knew exist and rode with Izzy and loved it. He is a changed little fella because of people like Izzy and John Pike and all the others that day who have made this their calling. Perhaps it is me that changed a little too, knowing that people like this exists makes me , my wife and perhaps Ben not feel so alone as we struggle to bring Ben back. Thanks guys. http://d.yimg.com/kq/groups/17498862/sn/320085482/name/bensurfershealing.jpg “May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand.” I have never been so totally grateful to any one organization in my life as I am to Surfers Healing. These guys are the kind of men I truly want to be. They are all about love and sharing. Just one look at the cute little boy on the board with Izzy speaks volumes…. to me, because that’s my son Ben. He is 3 years old, diagnosed with autism at 18 months after a vaccine injury took all his vocabulary, his eye contact, his awareness of his surroundings and replaced them with blank stares, seizures, fevers, temper tantrums and sensory issues that among other things causes him to hate wearing wet clothes, couldn’t even stand for a drop of water to get on his clothes. Yet this little boy took to the water and chilly air and the stranger that paddled him away from the only two people he really knew exist and rode with Izzy and loved it. He is a changed little fella because of people like Izzy and John Pike and all the others that day who have made this their calling. Perhaps it is me that changed a little too, knowing that people like this exists makes me , my wife and perhaps Ben not feel so alone as we struggle to bring Ben back. Thanks guys.

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“May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand.”

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