ADHD Awareness Month is September.
Autism Awareness Month is April.
Why am I seeing status messages that say that they are now and that you should definitely change your status to whatever disease thing? People are total sheep. They add whatever disease they're connected to to such status messages and post them. I saw one once that stretched the limits of belief. Did you really need to list the 86 diseases you think are invisible on that status? No, probably not. Did anyone become more aware of your particular illness because of that status? No, probably not. Would they become more aware if you posted information and helpful tools about your illness? Probably more than with just a status message.
I really can't understand all the status-message-chain-letters around. Have we not learned that lesson in print? Ok, then via email? No. No, we havent. I understand you want to be sympathetic to whomever posted the status in the first place, but how about offering a casserole, or if you're far away, send them a nice email or card? Why does your status message need to say "If you don't post this as your status for an hour, you hate all people with cancer?" The fact of the matter is, it doesn't need to say that.
Besides all of this, most of the "Awareness" stuff I see on Facebook is just thinly-veiled name dropping. How about, instead, we actually learn about these illnesses, the warning signs, all of that kind of thing? Can we post those as an alternative to these silly "awareness" photos and messages? Because those might actually help someone come to a diagnosis or figure out what's going on with their situation. But no one wants to know that the really have that disease or diagnosis, do they?
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