Finding a way to ensure that an adult child with autism will be able to live well after mom and dad are gone is a challenge faced by many families.
Sharon Carlson is already preparing her 14-year-old son Kyngston to live and work on his own.HUTTO — Mark Lyons was recently looking over the books of the mail order sock company he and his wife, Sally, started in 2020. They hope the home-based business will someday support their son Samuel, who is 25 and has autism, once they’re no longer living. The numbers, he concedes, don't look good.
Samuel Lyons, 25, with his parents, Mark, 68, and Sally, 62, pose in front of 6,000 pairs of socks in 45 splashy designs that they sell online from their Hutto home.The challenge of finding a way to ensure that an adult child with autism will be able to live well and safely after mom and dad are gone is one faced by many families of people with autism spectrum disorder.
Yet despite such advances, once these people reach adulthood, they often have difficulty supporting themselves. Approximately 75 percent of people with autism are unemployed or under-employed, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. They started Sammy on speech, occupational and horse riding therapy as quickly as possible while also signing him up for various government programs, which often have waiting lists that can stretch for years. And they became familiar with nonprofit organizations such as, which provides support, information and education for families of children and adults with disabilities.
Sally Lyons, 62, looks over a collection of America’s Funniest Home Videos, a favorite of her autistic son, Samuel, 25. She and her husband, Mark, 68, have started a home business, “SammySocks Etc.” in hopes that Samuel will be self-supporting once they’re gone.Sally home-schooled Sammy until he was in seventh grade, when, like a lot of kids that age, he started rebelling . So they enrolled him in public school where, once he was put into a regular special education class, he blossomed.
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