1 in 78 children in Israel is diagnosed with autism.

That's what you need to know about it

On the occasion of Alut's annual fundraising day, Dr. Ilan Rabinovich, a father of 2 autistic children with low functioning, openly explains what his family life looks like and what the most important lesson he learned from the children is.

Dr. Ilan Rabinovich

29/03/2022

Tuesday, 29 March 2022, 09:34 Updated: 10:04

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Video for the fundraising day of the Alut Association (Alut Association)

As a psychiatrist, my profession is concerned with providing a quality of life for those sitting in front of me in the clinic - reducing the gap between personal potential and realization, teaching them to adopt a lifestyle of employment suitable for skills and education, sustainable relationships that need to be maintained, creative sexuality, social life requiring investment, hobbies, activities Regular physicality, taking care of vacations to recharge batteries, brain and cultural enrichment as well as personal magic moments, for the sake of the self, that will fill them with energy.

I do not work hard.

I work a lot, and it's good that way.

It suits me best.

This is a job that requires a huge mental effort - to get into people's heads and understand what is going on inside their minds.

But I too need small-big moments to recharge my depleted internal batteries.

My private magic moments are probably trivial to most of you, but sometimes life makes you appreciate the simple as miraculous.

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Every Friday and Saturday I travel with the autistic children: 26-year-old Yotam and 25-year-old Keren, long hours in a car without a purpose.

We travel around Israel with a playlist of songs we love in the background.

We wind down in a series of rounds in State Square.

Everyone knows us there.

It's hard to visually disappear from us.

A 55-year-old father, "Dwarf," who walks with a 1.95-foot-tall fall who looks like he came out of the "Vikings" series and a beautiful red-haired young woman.

They both make sounds in personal jargon that are clear only to their parents (graceful to my taste), at times demanding a "sack of flour" on Abush as if they were two years old.

Their disability is clear to all.

You do not have to be a specialist psychiatrist to understand that they are different.

others.

Special.

With the psyche of babies and their own inner world enclosed within the damn autism bubble.

Through the bubble, they manage to reach out and touch as deeply as possible the heart of anyone who is willing to listen to them.

The sellers in the square wave to Yotam and Keren Shalom.

Passers-by sometimes throw in a sentence like "Well done."

I am no longer ashamed or hiding.

I am as proud of their home and foundation as I am of their sister Dana, an outstanding doctoral student in computer science and computational biology.

It is forbidden to hide and conceal

The fundraising week of Alut - the National Association for Autistic Children and Adults - and the Association for Children at Risk deals with just that. Way: Volunteering, combined with work, class, school.

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One in 78 children in Israel is diagnosed with autism.

Unfortunately autism can not be diagnosed in pregnancy, so no one is vaccinated.

These children, or people with disabilities in general, must not be hidden and concealed.

Yotam and Keren have the biggest heart you will meet, they recognize from a mile away people who shy away from them, and are very hurt.

Enter then into unrest and severe distress.

On the other hand, whoever treats them at eye level, with kindness, with genuine listening to what they say without words - gets from them to learn what love is.

They know how to give everyone small moments of happiness.

Give it a try.

Tzipi Refaeli and the Rabinovich Foundation (Photo: Alut Association)

Bar Refaeli and Yotam Rabinovich (Photo: Alut Association)

A living example of accepting the other is Yotam and Keren's relationship with Tzipi and Bar Refaeli, who this year are leading the annual ALU campaign that began this week. Yotam and Keren's initial relationship was with Bar, through mother Tzipi and her father Rafi. Immediately Yotam and Keren fell in love with Bar's personality and beauty.

Tzipi has been a good friend of ours for many years. , To the rehabilitation center for low-functioning adult autistics, in Petah Tikva. This is a very difficult and challenging job. It takes a special personality and a golden heart with the ability to give to make personal contact with the children. And not controlled towards the caregivers.But everyone knows how to express love if you just give it to them.

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