Silence Is Golden? Or Loud and Proud?

If you were on Facebook or Twitter yesterday, more than likely you saw an abundance of posts/tweets about autism. Yesterday was Communication Shutdown Day.

"Our aim is to simply encourage a greater understanding from people outside the autism community. Social network users have become reliant and even addicted to platforms like Facebook and Twitter. And if they shutdown for 1 day, they will feel a sense of disconnection and a sense of frustration. By creating a little empathy, we hope to encourage a wider understanding and acceptance of people with autism - an understanding we recognise (sic) those in the autism community already have."

- CommunicationShutdown.org

For those of us who aren't blessed to personally know an autistic child, the silence was...silence...and I wouldn't have missed a thing if it wasn't for Sunday Stilwell of Adventures in Extreme Parenthood. One of the things I love about my job is having the opportunity to meet amazing people doing extraordinary things, and Sunday is one of those people. She's a mom of two precious boys, Sam and Noah, who are at the severe end of the autism spectrum. She's an advocate and loud voice for the autism community. There was no way she was going to be silenced.