#Project324 – Exception or Exceptional?

I find it really difficult to explain if awareness means making Autism the exception – which would include special learning methods, special units, training, etc; or if it means accepting that Autism is exceptional – and whether exceptional means rare/uncommon, or inspirational/remarkable. Exception: Making Autism the exception would include all the initiatives I have seen

#Project324 Week 9

Week 9 begun with France and Switzerland receiving their cards and starting to distribute this week. Christos’ 18th birthday is ONLY 2 weeks away today. List of Fab Things in Week 8 & 9: FAB 1: After my fab auntie Eleni gave me the idea, I have spent most of my wage on Disney dresses and

#Project324 – Week 7

Only 3 more weeks to go. So far, we received 2 emails from people who found cards in New Jersey & 1 from Cyprus; 17 emails from people who have read about the project; 3 articles have been published (Ambitious About Autism, Vantage Magazine, Ant1wo); and I have loads more pictures to share 🙂 Before the

Wear Blue on April 2nd 2016

April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day. Last year, almost 5,000 people took part in The National Autistic Society’s first ever World Autism Awareness Week and raised over £235,395 to help autistic people and their families across the UK. Last year, countries around the world lit their buildings in blue in honour of the day. There were

#Project324 Week 1 – The ‘first’ boy

Week 1: I sent out the rest of the cards to Greece, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Iraq and Ukraine. Some have already been distributed! I hope you’re looking out for them wherever you are. The end of week one made me think of the first autism diagnosis – so I did a bit of digging. Donald Grey

#Project324 Week 0

Week 0: 10 envelopes (USA, Scotland, Kenya, Canada, UK, Cyprus, N.Ireland, Iraq, Spain and Belgium) have been dispatched. The only ones left are: Ukraine, Turkey, Greece, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, Sri Lanka, Dubai and Wales which will be sent this week – as soon as it stops raining and I get my voice back so I

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2016 is a big year; Christos is turning 18 on May 6th. *cry* In honour of this big year, this amazing boy and to celebrate his progress and never-ending improvement I’ve decided to launch an Autism awareness project through the blog. The Preparation:  The idea for the project took many forms over many many months.

I Believe In, Advocate For, Support & Love Someone with Autism

Autism Canada turns 40 this year! 40 years of support to the Autism community; 40 years of fighting for rights & awareness; 40 years of keeping hope alive. I came into contact with Autism Canada through Twitter, when they retweeted me in October. It was so exciting to think that an organisation like them would look

2016 Do Not Do List

Trying not to look at Autism as a bad thing can be a full time job. I was raised with this mentality that he is who he is, he’s your brother, love him. So, when he was annoying, when he yelled, when he scratched, I didn’t think “Oh it’s because he’s autistic”, I thought “I’ll get

Autism Advantages

Controversial? “Just because a computer is not running Windows doesn’t mean that it’s broken. Not all the features of atypical human operating systems are bugs” – Neurotribes Autism is either genius, aka unworldly/Rain Man – who wasn’t actually autistic FYI, or isolated, aka unsociable. Laurent Mottron, a psychiatrist at the University of Montreal led research in