Autism Awareness Month

Hello all,

Today, being April 1, is the beginning of Autism Awareness Month. You can go to this link to find out what is happening here in Massachusetts:

http://www.nmrls.org/youth/ysgrant/

Honestly, I wonder about the purpose of autism awareness month. It's a lot hard for me to believe that there are people out there who don't know what autism is, but I guess there are plenty. It's just that I wonder what the purpose of "awareness" is...attitude change? Acceptance? Education? I guess that because I've been involved with autism for so many years thinking about it is second nature to me. Does anyone have any good autism awareness stories?