Ellen Notbohm » On My Soapbox http://www.ellennotbohm.com Award Winning Author and Columnist Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:19:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Facebook discussion: Stamping out suffering – where it doesn’t exist http://www.ellennotbohm.com/2010/05/facebook-discussion-stamping-out-suffering-where-it-doesnt-exist/ http://www.ellennotbohm.com/2010/05/facebook-discussion-stamping-out-suffering-where-it-doesnt-exist/#comments Wed, 12 May 2010 15:45:04 +0000 Ellen http://www.ellennotbohm.com/?p=1026 The end of Autism Awareness month always leaves me feeling like the cleanup detail facing the bleachers after Homecoming. The Big Game is over. Some went home happy, others did not. Remaining behind in the stands: candy wrappers, popcorn crumbs, puddles of soda, smelly mustard blobs and hot dog stubs in wadded-up napkins. The charged excitement has dissipated; you can’t tell from looking at the debris whether it was a good game or a yawner. Did the home team move up in the standings? Or did we merely hold our position?

To be sure, the global conversation about autism has gotten louder. My website took an all-time high number of hits — from 91 countries. That’s terrific.

What isn’t terrific to me is that, amid all this wonderful awareness, I continue to see the same old tired stereotypes sneaking into news stories that seem to be trying to be positive – but not quite making it. It may very well be unintentional, but it nevertheless holds our kids back, which I why I will continue to bring it to light, until it stops…

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