Can't We All Just Get Along?

Location wise, my family is incredibly separated! However! Thanks to social networking, they still manage to fight as if they all lived under the same roof...





Annnnnddd again...





As you might recall, I had a very heated blog post about this VERY FACEBOOK RE-POST message. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would have to deal with this in my family, where they should be the ones who understand the whole autism thing.

Once more, if you feel strongly about the issue, I'm not going to say you don't have the right to post what you want. You do. However, there are a THOUSAND different ways you could go about it to make this post BETTER

-You could take away the part where it says it's "Special Education week & Autism & ADHD Awareness month". If you truly believe that every month should be autistic awareness month, then why are you posting something that says only one specific week/month is? Kind of hypocritical, right?

-You could take away the part that tells others to re-post. If this is your feeling, feel free to say it. But don't tell others to feel the same way.

-Take out the part about the "children". Autism doesn't go away when you get older, my brother is 22 and still very much autistic. Autism awareness should be about all autistic people, not just "children".

-Realize that you posting this doesn't do anything. You're spreading the word of something the vast majority of people already know exists. You're not attaching a donation to it, you're not letting a news cast know about it, you're not being active in your "request" to "honor" those "special" kids. You're really just inflating your ego thinking that you'll reach thousands of people by posting something as your status. How many people do you really think you reach?

My list could go on and on, but the bottom line is that people will do what they want, despite what fuss anyone makes, no matter how strong the tie to anyone.