Our story
This is Abby.
Told the only way it can be told honestly — in her mother's words.
The before
Abby is my daughter. She is 15, profoundly autistic, and nonverbal. When she was little, she was hurting herself so badly we couldn't leave the house. Couldn't get through a meal. Couldn't sleep. Couldn't breathe.
We saw every specialist. Tried every medication on the list, and then some that weren't. Some helped a little. Nothing helped enough. And every single night I went to bed wondering if tomorrow was going to be the day something finally worked, or the day I completely lost my mind.
Autism doesn't take weekends. It doesn't take holidays, birthdays, or the one night you actually made dinner reservations. The relentlessness of it is something only another autism parent truly gets. If you are one, you just nodded so hard you pulled something.
The search
I started researching cannabinoids the way you research something when the official answers have run out. Late nights. Facebook groups. Studies. Other parents who had found things that helped their kids and were willing to talk about it.
There was no expert handing me an answer. Most of the experts I saw had no answer.
So I became the one doing the research.
I refined the ratio over years. Adjusted it. Watched Abby. Took notes. Adjusted again. The formula you know as Abby's Hope is not something I arrived at in an afternoon. It is something I found slowly, the hard way, by refusing to quit.
The turn
When things started to change, I was scared to believe it.
More calm. Smoother transitions. School days that actually happened. Walks. Outings. Connection.
More Abby.
For our family, that shift meant everything. And when you have been counting single good hours, a good day feels like something you didn't dare hope for.
The decision to share it
Other families started asking about our experience. I understood why. When something works after years of nothing working, you want to tell everyone.
But I knew that if Abby's Hope was ever going to reach other families, it had to be done the right way. Safely. Responsibly. Under the highest possible standards. Because other people's children deserved that.
That is why I chose to partner with Botanical Sciences.
Botanical Sciences is Georgia's first physician-founded medical cannabis company. Their standards are not a marketing point. Their testing is real. Their people take patient care as seriously as I take Abby's care.
Together, we made this formula available through Georgia's medical cannabis program. And we are working on the states that come next.
Two Sparrows Village
Most people who find Abby's Hope find it through Abby's story.
Fewer know about Two Sparrows Village, a nonprofit I founded for adults with intellectual disabilities. Because when I looked at what exists for Abby after she ages out of childhood programs, I didn't see enough.
Abby's Hope and Two Sparrows are the same answer to the same question: what kind of life does Abby deserve?
The full one.
My hope is simple.
More good days for families who need them.
— Jennifer