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Light It Up Blue for Autism Awareness

Light It Up Blue for Autism Awareness April is Autism Awareness month, and April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day. As many already know, the Pin It Up Blue campaign is where people change their porch lights and other outdoor lighting to blue in honor of the global awareness movement. The global event takes place on the 2nd of April, but hundreds of thousands of families have decided to keep their blue lights up for the entire month.

Outdoor lighting is not the only way to participate in Light It Up Blue. There’s also the cyber world to light up. Here are a few ways you can participate in that:

Facebook: Change your profile picture or Timeline cover image to a picture of a blue lamp or light bulb. If you don’t have one, feel free to save the picture presented with this article and use it. Don’t forget, there are other social media sites where you can do this as well, such as Google+ and MySpace.

Pinterest: Look around the web for an article or website your think is appropriate that is displaying a blue light image. Pin-it! It’s that easy. Yes, this article can be pinned, but we won’t be offended if you choose to use another article or website. We’re calling this Opperation Pin It Blue.

Your own sites and blogs: Add this or any other blue light image you feel is appropriate to your websites and blogs. Perhaps a special entry or article as well, or simply and quietly add the image.

Remember, the images don’t all have to be the same one. Every light lit is in honor of those who have some form of autism. No two people with autism are alike, so there is no reason why every image should be exactly the same. Though this is APOV on Autism’s official Light It Up Blue picture for 2012, our members have chosen to use it in many different ways because...

...the best way to represent 100,000 different voices lost to one single cause is with 100,000 different images of the same exact thing.


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