Scentsy lends it's support to Autism Speaks

In order to highlight the growing need for concern and awareness about autism, the Autism Society has been celebrating National Autism Awareness Month since the 1970s. The United States recognizes April as a special opportunity for everyone to educate the public about autism and issues within the autism community.(http://www.autism-society.org/)
I am not personally affected by anyone with autism in my family, nor do any of my close friends have an autistic child.  Lately though I have been meeting more people that are affected by autism and I'm learning more autism itself.  Autism affects 1 in 110 children, 1 in 70 boys.  I had no idea it was more common in boys than girls. 

I am an independent consultant for Scetnsy &something that I think is pretty great about our company, we support charitble causes!  Scentsy has two catalogs each year and in each of those catalogs we have a charitable warmer for sale where 100% of the net proceeds go to that charity.  The Spring/Summer 2011 catalog is supporting Autism Speaks.

Piece by Piece is the full size Scentsy Warmer that you can purchase to help support Autism.

Temple Grandin - movie for HBO

(Clare Danes as Temple Grandin)
I had never heard of Temple Grandin, nor this movie. We caught the premiere of it Saturday night on HBO and it was WONDERFUL! This woman was able to achieve things that the Dr's tried telling her mother would never happen. They told her best to put her in an institution. HUGE pat on the back for her mother being so strong and refusing to believe them! She pushed Temple to be better and had the saying "differnet but not less" and that was (IS) so true! I also loved when Professor Carlock took such an interest in her and think that was such a helpful way of helping her to understand things when he explained to her about the doors of opportunity and walking through them. This movie was amazing and I really hope she gets an award for her acting in this movie as it was superb! The whole cast really was amazing. The way the explained what Temple sees with the flashing pictures, that was an incredible way to help those of us who know nothing about autism get an idea on how it works in their head a bit. This is a must see movie! Temple now teachers at a school in Colorado, though I can't remember where.