June 18, 2005: Autistic Pride Day

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31 May 2005, 3:33 pm

You may not be aware of this, but Autistic Pride Day is fast approaching. Will WP or any of its members plan on doing anything to commemorate the occasion?

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31 May 2005, 4:05 pm

I had no idea!

I'm looking for activities around my area but don't see any.

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31 May 2005, 7:34 pm

June 18th is autism day. Ok! can
someone fill in the details about
it's rally origins, and who started
it? What is a glazer????

Hmmmm? perplexed!
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31 May 2005, 7:53 pm

Aspies for Freedom (AFF) started it. The site for it is:

http://www.autisticprideday.com/

This is the first year for Autistic Pride Day. AFF put out a press release to spread the word about it and to reach as many parts of the world and get as many events as individuals want to organize.

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31 May 2005, 8:06 pm

Ghosthunter wrote:

What is a glazer????

Hmmmm? perplexed!
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For all you folks out there who don't know who he is, Malcolm Glazer is, at present, owner of the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers and "majority owner" of the Manchester United F.C. in Merrie Olde England. To say the folks in Manchester UK are upset about this move would be putting it mildly, to say the least.

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31 May 2005, 8:21 pm

Maybe we can plan an special chat... to celebrate it with the mods.

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01 Jun 2005, 2:15 am

Schools could have a No Dress Code day with the students giving a coin donation to dress how they like. Monies raised could be donated to the local Austim Society

Is this an international Autism day?

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01 Jun 2005, 3:12 am

I do not know, but a party is a party. No just kidding. I will celebrate it correctly.

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01 Jun 2005, 5:44 am

ElfMan wrote:

Is this an international Autism day?

Yes they are hoping that it will become international. Check the website link I posted, they say what others are doing in other countries.

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01 Jun 2005, 6:25 am

Yay!! !! !! !!

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18 Jun 2005, 10:26 pm

I 'celebrated' it by doing a tiny bit of work on autistics.org. (Not really equipped to do much else right now.)

A friend of mine wrote this, which I posted for him:

http://www.autistics.org/library/autpride2005.html

I agree with much of it and was very happy that he wrote it, because I had been attempting to write something similar (not about Autistic Pride Day, but about the more general ideas in the article) for some time now, but not getting very far. Not even one sentence. So I am happy someone else managed to say it.

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19 Jun 2005, 1:01 am

Rain Man was on Bravo around 12AM Saturday morning (Central) I watched it.

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19 Jun 2005, 10:11 am

I hope you were able to celebrate the day somehow.

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