This past weekend was a Double Header of Autism Awareness events in support of April as Autism Awareness Month. Yours Truly, alongside brothers and sisters of Garrison Carida of the 501st Legion, made appearances at both the Lehigh Valley, PA Walk Now for Autism Speaks event on Saturday 4/17 and the Philadelphia Zoo Autism Awareness Day Festival in Philadelphia, PA on Sunday 4/18.
The weather held out for both events and brought a little taste of Spring back out in support of these great events. Both events were phenominal and received amazing support from the community.
Saturday's Lehigh Valley Walk Now for Autism raised over $300,000 towards the fight to help wage war on the Galactic War on Autism. Several thousand people in attendance, great festivities to make the atmosphere enjoyable and fun for all ages and of course... Star Wars!
The walk was great and we were so well received by the public it was truly amazing once again. Many heart-warming scenes were witnessed that showed that the Galactic Empire truly does have a heart of gold.
Sunday's Autism Awareness Day at the Philadelphia Zoo wasn't as much a fundraiser as it was just a fun day for Families with an autistic member to come out and enjoy a fun festival of shows, games and of course... the zoo itself. We were once again a hit for all ages and had even more heart-warming scenes with some members of the autistic community. One of my particular examples was a young boy with Autism (I'm guessing around 10 years old) basically latched on to me and didn't want to go. He wanted me to follow him into the one pavillion to watch him get a temporary tattoo and his parents were doing the whole "it's ok buddy he's got to stay out here to say hello to all the other kids too". I could sense the smiles on their faces as I took their sons hand and said I'd love to accompany him and spent the next 15 or so minutes with him.
As mentioned before, Autism Awareness is a very near and dear cause to me so this weekend was definitely well worth it to me personally. Take a moment to find a local Autism event to you and go out in support of it if you can. The Empire will graciously appreciate your support in our war on Autism.
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this is a heart-warming read. my thanks to this representative of the galactic empire.
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ReplyDeleteAs the coordinator of the Philadelphia Zoo event I was touched by compassion and warmth by those members of the Galactice Empire. Thank you for taking time from your duties to create a lot of smiles on the faces of the kids big and small.
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