Welcome to the Crowdsourcing Mornings segment! Every weekday morning, Geek Alabama talks about and features one crowdsourcing project from crowdsourcing sites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and others. The hope with Crowdsourcing Mornings is to feature and help a project be successful and reach its fundraising goal. Please enjoy today’s featured project!
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A beautiful, affirming, autism-positive autism book… and you can help to make it happen.
I asked 150 autistic children, teenagers and adults a question: “What do you love most about life?”
This book contains their answers.
For decades, autistic people have been on the receiving end of some very bad press. And unfortunately, the first thing most people learn about autism is that “it’s supposed to be a bad thing”. But the autistic participants in this book – including me – have our own ideas about that.
150 autistic people (from 22 different countries around the world) have come together to form this anthology of awesomeness, and you can help us bring it to life.
What is this book?
What Do You Love Most About Life? is a 150-page blast of well-deserved autism positivity, with each page featuring an autistic person sharing their answer to the question in the book’s title. Some of their answers are insightful, some are humorous, some are loving, some are downright delightful, and all of them offer insight into the amazing autistic mind (yes, I’m biased, but our brains really are amazing).
Since the autism spectrum is so vast and autistic experiences are so personalized, I have tried to feature as much diversity within the 150 participants as possible. They include:
- Representatives from 22 countries, covering every continent on Earth (except Antarctica);
- 129 autistic children/teenagers and 21 autistic adults (ages ranging from 2-49);
- A suitably diverse range regarding ethnicity, gender, diagnoses, and disabilities;
- Non-speaking participants who typed their answers;
- Participants with a wide range of co-existing conditions including rare diagnoses;
- Participants with complex learning disabilities;
- Autistic siblings, parent-child teams, and an Argentinian family with four autistic members;
- And a Rubik’s cube speedsolving world record holder.
As of April 21st, this project has raised $11,000 of their $7,457 goal. This project has 5 days left to raise as much as it can. For a pledge of $13, you will get one digital copy. For a pledge of $19, you will get one physical book. To learn more and to pledge money, go to: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chrisbonnello/what-do-you-love-most-about-life-150-autistic-insights?
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