{"id":9416,"date":"2020-11-17T12:06:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T17:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/?page_id=9416"},"modified":"2020-11-17T12:06:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T17:06:06","slug":"gabrielas-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/research\/what-we-study\/kmt2c\/gabrielas-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabriela&#8217;s  Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">By: Leticia, Parent of Gabriela, a 25 year old with a KMT2C genetic change<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 0px;\"><em>&#8220;I feel great if I can help my daughter and other people with autism.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>What is your child\u2019s relationship like with his\/her siblings?<\/h3>\n<p>Not so good. I have two girls and they are both in the spectrum of autism.<\/p>\n<h3>What does your family do for fun?<\/h3>\n<p>We like walking, biking, traveling, photography, beach&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>Tell us about the biggest hardship your family faces.<\/h3>\n<p>Autism has brought us some difficult challenges.<\/p>\n<h3>What about your child puts a smile on your face?<\/h3>\n<p>When she keeps herself calm and happy.<\/p>\n<h3>What motivates you to participate in research?<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to share and exchange information and experience. I believe people can help each other this way.<\/p>\n<h3>How do you feel you are impacting our understanding of the genetic changes being studied in <span class=\"notranslate\">Simons Searchlight<\/span> (16p11.2, 1q21.1, or single gene changes)?<\/h3>\n<p>I feel great if I can help my daughter and other people with autism.<\/p>\n<h3>What have you learned about your child\u2019s condition from other families?<\/h3>\n<p>The importance of stimulation, and that we all have our difficult days.<\/p>\n<h3>If you could give one piece of advice to someone recently diagnosed with the genetic change in your family, what would it be?<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;d say stimulation from the beginning is quite important.<\/p>\n<h3>What is one question you wish researchers could answer about your child\u2019s genetic change?<\/h3>\n<p>Is there a good and safe medicine for my daughter, based on her genetic sequence?<\/p>\n<h3>Is there anything else you would like to share with other families?<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;d say that autism also have a good side. Hyper-focus is a kind of a superpower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Leticia, Parent of Gabriela, a 25 year old with a KMT2C genetic change &#8220;I feel great if I can help my daughter and other people with autism.&#8221; What is your child\u2019s relationship like with his\/her siblings? Not so good. I have two girls and they are both in the spectrum of autism. What does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":9104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9417,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9416\/revisions\/9417"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}