By Cathy Jameson

…I declare a meme war.  Silly, right?  But a worthwhile pastime for some. 

Every now and then one of my kids and my sister send each other some of the funniest memes or gifs.  It’s so fun to watch my child bust up laughing while searching for the perfect one.  It’s even funnier when they receive a more hilarious response from their aunt.  I was thinking about that back-and-forth exchange earlier in the week when I started brainstorming for this post.  I looked back at some of the images I’d saved the last few weeks, but nothing made me laugh out loud like the kids’ images do.  Instead, I found screenshots I’d saved of some really good messages.  Then I went looking for more.  So today, as we make it the half-way point of April, I thought I’d share them here. 

1, 2, 3, 4, I declare a meme war…

This one was perfect for April.

This next one is a strong reminder why some parents are vocal and continuously speak up – because their children can’t.

And why we cannot and will not celebrate a diagnosis…

Thankfully, some people are using their platform to call it what it is.

And others are filling their feed with facts. 


They do this because the mainstream media prefers to side with big pharma.

The media and big pharma would probably want us to live in Clown Earth all of the time.
Thank goodness we don’t, and thank goodness for rabbit holes! It’s what got a lot of us to start thinking beyond what we were being told.

Parents who do the work, who read, and who begin to ask questions understand that something isn’t adding up.adding up.

Insane, right? Even the dog owners are cluing in.  

It’s crazy what we’re told to believe and that we just need to trust our doctor, trust the science, and

trust that it’s not the vaccines causing problems.
It’s exhausting. 
All of this.  But will soon, I hear, (click for an early Easter egg!) be a little bit rewarding. 

So, cheers to those who’ve made it this far advocating for something better.  If not for our children, for other people’s children – may they be spared what so many of ours were not. 

Cathy Jameson is a Contributing Editor for Age of Autism.