{"id":2460,"date":"2014-04-01T21:19:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T04:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2014-04-01T21:21:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T04:21:48","slug":"i-have-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=2460","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Have A Dream&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April, the autism awareness month, is back! This is a perfect opportunity to express my hopes and emotions regarding autism in our daily life.<\/p>\n<p>I hope one day people reach the point of accepting all individuals with autism the way they are. According to the CDC, the prelevance has jumped to one child in sixty-eight (1 in 68) is diagnosed with autism. Coming across a person with atism is very likely to happen to any of us\u00a0every single day . They represent an important part of the world&#8217;s community, and should find their place and earn everyone&#8217;s respect and consideration.<\/p>\n<p>I hope people understand that autism is a condition and not a disease, it is a way of existing and thinking. Being different is an addition to the collective way of thinking. One of the reasons people like to brainstorm is to get a spectrum of different perspectives and viewpoints and discover new horizons and paths.<\/p>\n<p>I have a dream to see a child on the spectrum welcomed in a group of &#8220;normal&#8221; kids playing harmoniously and sharing everybody&#8217;s happiness.<\/p>\n<p>I have a dream to hear and see a child on the spectrum not being stared at or laughed at when she or he tries to express her or himself in a crowd or a classroom.<\/p>\n<p>I have a dream to see well-thought cirriculums available for children on the spectrum on the first day of school.<\/p>\n<p>I have a dream to see teachers cooperating with parents and working hand-in-hand to achieve one goal, helping children on the spectrum reach their full potential.<\/p>\n<p>I have a dream to see people looking for the strengths rather than the weaknesses in individuals with autism, appreciating the differences rather than the similarities.<\/p>\n<p>I have a dream to see more employers offering jobs to adults on the autism spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>I have dream that researchers find the cause(s) of autism and reveal the missing piece of the puzzle.<\/p>\n<p>With all my love and consideration to the world&#8217;s autism community,<\/p>\n<p>nadia shanab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April, the autism awareness month, is back! This is a perfect opportunity to express my hopes and emotions regarding autism in our daily life. I hope one day people reach the point of accepting all individuals with autism the way they are. According to the CDC, the prelevance has jumped to one child in sixty-eight &#8230; <a title=\"&#8220;I Have A Dream&#8221;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=2460\" aria-label=\"Read more about &#8220;I Have A Dream&#8221;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23,381,10,30,50,383,92,382],"class_list":["post-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autism","tag-aspergers-syndrome","tag-autism","tag-communication","tag-flexibility","tag-independence","tag-parenting","tag-research","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2464,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions\/2464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}