Autism Awareness Month in my school

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So I posted about this a while back. My school does Autism Awareness Month in April. Past two years it was horrible, all the Autism Speaks "facts" about Autism, Autistic children don't feel pain, have no emotional understanding, et cetera. I talked with the school psychologist, who is running it this year, and she says that I can make posters with her, or get other kids on the spectrum to help with making posters. I think I could probably find some better way to do it. Any ideas? I'd also ideally like to find some place from which I can get real facts about all types of Autism, because they try to read one per day over the speaker system, and I'm looking to represent all types, not just low functioning.

You could agree to read over the intercom parts that are true and parts that are untrue. SOunds like they are spreading propaganda, not awareness.