Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Happy Auditory Processing Awareness Day (in Minnesota)!!!

Today is APD awareness day in Minnesota. I'm so glad they have an awareness day, because if they didn't, I was about to start one myself! Think I'm kidding? It's hard to explain APD to someone in conversation, because you can't explain it in depth so they are missing a whole bunch of stuff about APD. If you've ever tried explaining it to someone, you know what I mean. It's the the most exiting and fun thing to do. I want APD to be heard not just in Minnesota, but everywhere all over the world. Have you ever felt like no one understands you? With the silent disorder I have, I feel like this all the time. If you are a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, cousin, sister brother, husband, wife, or a friend of someone that has APD it would make us SO heard if you put awareness out there. I'm betting so many people will just read this and say "Awwww. How thoughtful." Then they will think about doing something, and then "never have time to get to it". Don't be that percentage of people who doesn't do anything. Make your Facebook status "APD Awareness Day of breaking the silent Disorder", post a picture of an ear, a child in school, or whatever and post it to your Facebook, tumblr, or whatever website you wish, or send out an email with the photo and some nice words. This would only mean the WORLD to me and my APD friends. It's awful when I feel this feeling of not being understood and heard. At least 5 times a day I say to myself "They don't understand" or "Ugh, no one cares what I'm trying to say". You can at least change spread the word and I'm sure NUMEROUS of kids and their parents would feel so special someone "hears" them. :-)

Thankyou so much readers :-). Now time for me to get back to the beach!

-apdwarrior17