During one of Jason's Special Olympics swim practices, we met a wonderful lady named Kerri Gordon, who was selling something rather unique. She had homemade autism pins that she was selling for $5 each, benefiting the Dan Marino Foundation. The uniqueness of the pins is that they are different colors, with special things attached to them. For example, I got a New York Yankees pin, which is made up of a white puzzle piece with a navy blue star over it (the Yankees colors) with a little baseball on top of that. I also got a Miami Hurricanes pin, which was a green puzzle piece with an orange star (the Hurricanes colors) with a little football on top. There's pins with flowers, fire trucks, seashells, the works. They're really well done and benefit an important autism organization. You can find their Facebook page here: Facebook page for Puzzlepin.com. They're working on an actual web page for the pins, but please go to the Facebook page and check out the pictures of the different pins. Pins include American flags, police cars, babies (blue or pink), just really cool stuff.
Now, Kerri has a very personal reason for working so diligently on these pins: her son also has autism. Kerri also has her own business, doing event planning, catering, gift baskets and more. Below are pictures of her business card.
It's always good to support businesses that are friendly to autistic customers, but it's also important to support businesses that are owned by families coping with autism. If you know of any business that is "autism friendly", please pass it on so I can showcase them on here.
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