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Autism awareness day/week

Former MemberFormer Member Carer/musicianPosts: 819 Part of The Mix Family
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Today 2nd April, the day after April fools day is autism awareness day. This week from 1st to 7th is autism awareness week. 

💙💙 to show your appreciation wear blue and help spread your awareness 💙💙


As a person with autism every day this week I am wearing something blue even at college assignment to help raise awareness. 
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  • AoifeAoife Community Manager Posts: 3,228 Boards Guru
    edited April 2019
    This is a lovely thread @Abigail :) 

    💙💙💙
    Maybe somethings don't get better, but we do. We get stronger. We learn to live with our situations as messy and ugly as they are. We fix what we can and we adapt to what we can't. Maybe some of us will never fully be okay, but at least we're here. We're still trying. We're doing the best we can. That's worth celebrating too ❤
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 774 Part of The Mix Family
    Abigail said:
    Today 2nd April, the day after April fools day is autism awareness day. This week from 1st to 7th is autism awareness week. 

    💙💙 to show your appreciation wear blue and help spread your awareness 💙💙


    As a person with autism every day this week I am wearing something blue even at college assignment to help raise awareness. 
    I ask my friends what's special about this week, non of them knew it was austim awareness week, I flipping lost it with them. 
  • Former MemberFormer Member Carer/musician Posts: 819 Part of The Mix Family
    through the hard week i preformed at a gig as the odd one out wearing blue the the support of the mix on the keyboard (only small piece of paper I had at the time). I wore blue on stage and preformed the best I could with everything I bit of mite i had came home and slept as it was a hard day Wednesday. 
    Keep talking about autism and enjoy the blue till Aife get in work and changes the colour back the big bully she is 😛😛
  • AoifeAoife Community Manager Posts: 3,228 Boards Guru
    Hey @Abigail love that you used The Mix's notepad for your music sheet! I hope your performance went well :) 

    Keep talking about autism and enjoy the blue till Aife get in work and changes the colour back the big bully she is 😛😛

    Aww I'm afraid I've changed the confetti cannon back to The Mix colours! But do keep talking about autism and raising awareness.Thanks again for posting this thread, such a lovely idea :) 
    Maybe somethings don't get better, but we do. We get stronger. We learn to live with our situations as messy and ugly as they are. We fix what we can and we adapt to what we can't. Maybe some of us will never fully be okay, but at least we're here. We're still trying. We're doing the best we can. That's worth celebrating too ❤
  • Former MemberFormer Member Community Manager Posts: 319 The Mix Regular
    Hey @Abigail

    So I'm a little late to the party, but just wanted to share that everyone at my Sixth-Form and the attached Secondary School was invited to wear blue for autisn awareness day last Tuesday and did some activities in tutor around living with autism. Really great to see the week gather support across social media too, let's hope it brings about lots of awareness for what's such an important cause!
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