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14 Sep 2012, 4:05 pm

Miss Montana Shares Her Story

I know, I know, Autism Speaks is the devil, but I found this interesting. It's not everyday you see someone on the spectrum in a pageant.



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14 Sep 2012, 11:32 pm

Northeastern292 wrote:
Miss Montana Shares Her Story

I know, I know, Autism Speaks is the devil, but I found this interesting. It's not everyday you see someone on the spectrum in a pageant.


-She's gorgeous.

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15 Sep 2012, 1:57 am

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23 Sep 2012, 3:54 pm

Quote:

http://www.autismspeaks.org/blog/2012/0 ... -her-story

' . . . In the Miss America program it is required the each contestant have a personal platform or issue that they plan to bring attention to. I decided that mine should be autism awareness and acceptance and I titled it “Normal is just a Dryer Setting-Living with Autism.” . . '



I like it! :D This is very nicely put.



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24 Sep 2012, 1:14 pm

And here's a news item from June:

http://www.krtv.com/news/alexis-wineman ... tana-2012/



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08 Jan 2013, 8:06 pm

I'll have a link to the other post on Miss Montana, but anyways, this Saturday 1/12 at 9PM EST, you can root for Alexis! :)

Miss Montana's Campaign to Raise Autism Awareness (another topic on here related)



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10 Jan 2013, 1:33 am

And now on to Miss America!

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