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April is awareness month for two issues that are near and dear to my heart:
Autism
April is National Autism Awareness Month and April 2nd is World Autism Day. Of course, my family doesn't need a special month or day for autism; around our house (and many of yours) every day is autism awareness day! However, there is still much to be done to educate the general public about autism. To that end, this month I'll be making a donation to one of my favorite autism organizations: The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network. And of course I'll be blogging. Do any of you have any special plans?
Alcoholism
In addition, April is Alcohol Awareness month, and one of my favorite recovery sites, The Second Road, has asked me to share the following announcement:
The Second Road will be showcasing a recovery story every day during the month of April. We want to applaud those living in recovery while helping to bring awareness to addiction and to also make people aware of the strong community of support that exists.
TSR wants to salute the people who are battling alcoholism; as a child, a parent, a spouse, sibling, or as an addict. Be it 22 years or 2 days, we want to hear from the people making the decision to start a new path, to take the second road. TSR hopes this showcase will inspire not only those who are living in desperation, wrestling with the will to get sober, but also encourage those already working a program.
Community, support and inspiration are necessary on the road to recovery. If we can heighten the awareness of this disease, hopefully we can lower the amount of people living in pain.
Please, make YOUR voice heard. Submit your story to alix@thesecondroad.org.
Happy Awareness Month, everyone!
I was asked to contribute to The Second Road for Alcohol Awareness Month. Can you imagine me contributing something *gasp* SERIOUS?! I'm so going to do it just so I can show off writing skills that are not tongue-in-cheek ;)
ReplyDeleteOh, and because I want to help people, of course. And stuff.
I did it again, didn't it? This is why I need to write some un-funny stuff.
Have a great day, MPJ!
I like the Autism Awareness Posters that Beth from Asperger Square 8 made up. (http://aspergersquare8.blogspot.com/2009/03/autism-awareness-month-posters.html)
ReplyDeleteI'm speaking at an educators' conference as part of a parents' panel on preparing for adulthood later on in the month, and if nothing else, I hope to leave them with the idea that autistic people not only deserve the same respect that we give to our NT children, but that our job as parents, educators, and support workers is to support the choices that autistic people make for themselves, and work hard to expand the choices available to them.
Thanks for posting these reminders.
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