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In my area I am a positive role model for individuals with autism and DD. My job is to get the public to support opportunity for us. This is a public relations piece. Yet unlike the over 700 I interacted with at a meet and greet with a local autism parents about this project announced on over 11 radio stations, T.V news awareness about this and the many other positive responses elsewhere online is different and even on this site at times. To them this awareness makes me have an overinflated ego, think I am bigger then I am and yet I have had to stall growth for over a year because of to much growth, decline out of area distribution due to maximum growth already achieved and a host of other supportive employment products people want to buy pending development and have in their stores. This product making is one part whereas the inclusion campaign is where my real focus is on as others are taking over the responsibilities of managing the product lines I am the boss off including the county wide then leading to 3 other county wide sponsored employment inclusion campaigns.

I find I am frustrated with people with very high functioning autism able to work and not in need of accommodating work settings and these sponsored inclusive employment awareness. It's as if to them autism is not a disability and it makes them look bad. I am writing this here because I think they are clueless and self-centered. I've had to use myself for awareness and it is transitioning now as a role model circumstance to my working behind the scenes more because I am shy anyways and have hated it but dared myself rather then be lazy and do nothing good.

It all started at a farmer's market booth and selling the first batch of two dozen candles to now over 15,000. Also to note the brand is going national but I am not allowed to make much money from it and nothing is for sale online. I'd just like to see why after 4 years of volunteerism, shocking those around me, being confident to do things special interest corporate and private sector agencies serving the disabled have failed to do the past 50 years and never giving up means I got this over inflated ego of myself. Yes it will likely be on macro media outlets and yes I will make sure this happens because I said so. Give it two years once I have the equipment and unlike like the many other media articles I will post the new media awareness when it happens.

What is under-inflated (lacking focus and genuine compassionate intent) is the lack of ambition, spirit of community service toward fellow individuals with alike disabilities and fear keeping them from having any such audacity as when I implore. I'd like to help others get media awareness and start group based employment projects where they live. If you want help I can help you but if you want to put me down you got another thing coming because I'm full of piss and vintager like my grandma used to say.

I want to know who else here might have the audacity to help others have opportunity. In doing so don't expect to get rich. If you want my help doing something similarly where you live that is my job and I don't want your money for helping. Just don't complain that you were not offered, the world oppresses you or that something like this makes you look bad enough to push away the hopes of others for your own self-image and autism.

Nathan Young



This is J.J Wright he is the voice.

Is it acceptable that my audaciousness is applied in other ventures or is something amiss if yours in not my primary focus?

Are you in need of supportive and sponsored employment by having a substantial form of a disability?

No. But I have my own vision of how I might contribute to the autistic community. It is yet in its nascent form, so its actualization is not expected anytime soon achieved.

I was diagnosed late in life and have finally gotten a monkey off my back. I'm still teaching the monkey to dance to the organ.

OK. Let me know how I can help you then. My focus is on those least likely to be included and for quality of life reasons.

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We are all individuals with individual needs. Just because one person isn't bothered doesn't mean everyone isn't. Not everyone has the same experiences in life. One experience is just as valid as another, imo. People tend to believe their own personal experience is the only one that matters.


That's great you found your candle business and are helping others. May your enterprise know no bounds




Our society focuses way too much on money and nothing else. Helping others is more valuable than the almighty dollar.

I will be back later to reply to what you said.

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Yeah money I hate it. I think it is important for some self-advocates to be educated when their is a lack of understanding. The experiment started with candles and now it is an area wide inclusion campaign. I never intended to make money from candles myself nor was it about "candles". I am not motivated by money for myself but the creativity. It is fun.

I think the system is mucked up and needs correcting at times to be less for special interest which gets the politicians elected. I have allot of support. If the system needs to cater less to special interest, more for the tax-payer and or for the individuals with developmental disabilities when applicable to outcomes it should be more dynamic and transparent. It is quite flexible as it is where I live and this campaign has been greeted well so far in introduction. I am always studying special interest.

I say I am observing and whatever gets in the way better be ready for quick reaction socially and politically. The world is not all sugar and spice, dogie tails and good stuff. It is self-serving at times as well as malicious and lacks vision for one another yet the other times it is an opportunity for balance.

Nathan Young

People really love candles, so it's a great medium to work within. Candles are a good choice. People buy a lot of the scented variety.

Due to autism being so political who knows what they should say about autism on awareness candles for instance. That is why I advocate to provide jobs for people with developmental disabilities that need specialized supports. The autism community is far to social and politically hostile to cater to directly. Besides it is selfish to cater to one group of people with developmental disabilities and not the other and people make sure and ask me if it is for more then people with autism.

Even getting sponsorships from well to do corporations and famous people would be at risk because of the nonsense at times. So I decided to have the concept of autism also help other people with developmental disabilities in what I do. I think people with autism can be good advocates for individuals of all kinds and perhaps autism has run it's course on awareness with the media for the most part. Well it being different then before and not as much awareness in the years to follow.

As far as special interest in what I understand of it I've kept my distance and preserve the Lanterman Act individual rights for the organization as a whole as a mode of expression and behavior. Under this premise I am able to ethically assure future expressions and perhaps avoid conflict of interest. In premise the function of outreach is not profitability but that of the ability to conduct outreach.

Nathan Young

It's great that you've gone into the candle business. You've h found your niche in the world. Candles sell like hot cakes.

What do you think about Obama style awareness for autism and other developmental disability awareness for inclusion? I know Obama style really well but I thought to incorporate some other types of awareness styles indirectly. I would not copy Obama but use it for a trend based insertion in the awareness. I think given the social awareness differences now from before the Obama election some civil rights types of hope talk from the past might go good with it as well but for people with DD.

I have to write the scripts soon and needed to study here for a while.

People buy these to support the program whereas other brands even other local brands sit around for a while. Store owners are surprised at the volume of sales. The stores not open minded at first were never approached again. One sells 30-40 candles a week.

I am not interested in making candles myself. Others make them. I had to pour 15,000 and don't want to do it ever again. My job is public relations outreach and that has to do with the study of minds which I like.

What would the Obama style awareness be like? Obama seems diplomatic, tries to put the crowd at ease with some banter. His relatives on his mother's side are buried in the same cemetery as my relatives on my mother's side. That's my personal Obama connection
What other awareness styles will you indirectly incorporate? Can you give some examples?

My approach has always been make the area into an example and look at what this areas members of the community have supported. Being nice to local businesses in awareness and making possibilities happen with the help of the local community. It's gone from funny, romantic and inspiring. Things like monkey fart candles on many radio stations at once for contests and pot head candles. I even have Redneck, Hippie, Obama, Republican, Democrat, Hillary, Reagen and Green Party candles. All aspects of life, funnies and whatever can be similar to the macro sphere while promoting equal opportunity in the products.

Give me some time I will post up some MP3's of past awareness.

The candles were being used to lead to the Humboldt Includes campaign which related to the "We Includes" campaign on the state level. However it is riddled with special interest like Starbucks showing they include when you hardly ever see it and other corporations. I decided to work with the Regional Center to neutralize that because it wouldn't go to far just like past promises and public relations gimmicks of government and the business world.

I am very smart and I don't take much at face value.

That's so cool, blending the candles with pop culture by coming up with different styles of candles. Maybe the styles of awareness can mimic the candles. You could write an awareness script for each individual candle. It would compliment popular culture which seems to saturate the minds of the masses.