Do You Like Having Access to Computers,The Internet, Electricity ?

Then you SHOULD also like supporting all people with Autism,families with kids with Autism,because we might just have the next,best INVENTORS right between us !!! And we wouldn't want to miss possible Climate Change Inventions,Solutions!?

There is a special get-together TOMORROW,April 1st,4PM at Statehouse,Montpelier for AUTISM AWARENESS DAY !

If you LOVE someone with Autism,want to know someone with Autism,know more about their families,struggles and triumphs ,PLEASE,come out for a lively parent/children and self-advocates meeting to talk with legislators,other families and listen to an AMAZING young man's SPEECH:

STEPHEN SHORE ,PhD ...author,musician and autism professor and self-advocate...will talk about "Unlimited Potential",which he can demonstrate,has encountered many times and seen,how to support it best (in Finnland,for example)

Stephen has personally helped me many times with advice and connections,in Boston's Harvard Square,while playing chess with my daughter.He has studied intensely about Autism Interventions and has been invited for years now to many countries all over the world ,from Beijing to Rio de Janeiro,Helsinki to Rome to conferences about autism to give speeches and advice.He is funny,wise,experienced and we are very lucky getting him to our town for an afternoon !!!!

Additionally,Miss Vermont International ,KARLY FEREDAY will greet and speak,she made Autism her platform and has a brother with Autism.

And if you ever wanted to meet the NEW ENGLAND K-9 RESCUE TEAM...this is a hands-on chance: they will be present!

Many times already they helped to re-unite a lost child or adult to get safely back home...since for some,wandering off can be a side-effect of having autism.

But did you know,that we wouldn't have electricity or computers without the amazing intelligence of people with Autism?

That Albert Einstein fits the same profile,so does Alan Turing (inventing the first computer !..recently portrayed in the movie "Imitation Game") ,Dian Fossey (Gorillas in the Mist),Andy Warhol (famous Artist),Benjamin Banneker(known today as the first African-American scientist),Andy Kaufman(a comedian,portrayed in the movie'Man on the Moon'),Wassily Kandinsky (in Russia,now known as the first abstract artist),Julia Bowman Robinson(mathematician),Piet Mondrian (famous Dutch/American artist),Sophie Germain (french mathematician and engineer: the Eiffel Tower was only possible because of her!),Lewis Carroll(author of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass'),Issac Newton(one of the greatest scientists),Nikola Tesla(developed electricity further),Paul Erdoes (Hungarian,Israeli mathmetician),Glenn Gould(famous pianist),Immanuel Kant(famous German Philosopher),Barbara McClintock(American scientist and Nobel Prize winner),Joseph Cornell(American Surrealist Artist and creator of "Cornell Boxes"),Hans Christian Andersen(Danish story teller/writer "The Ugly Duckling","The little Mermaid","The Emperors new Clothes",etc),Temple Grandin,PhD (American professor for Animal Sciences and public speaker for Autism).

See,why we need to support the special needs of people with Autism?They give back in a BIG WAY..given the chance !!!

See you at 4 PM in the Cafeteria,Statehouse..free refreshments,snacks (you may contribute !) ,legislators and all of us!