Recognizing Autism Awareness Month with some Meeztastic Moms
When mother Meezer Heids6979 wrote to Meez a couple of months ago, prospects were looking slim. Heids (or ZsMommy on CafeMom) wanted to bring to our attention that April is Autism Awareness Month, and thought it would be a great idea to get some Autism Awareness items on Meez. A number of us at Meez have past experiences in non-profits and we loved the idea. As much as we wanted to support her and the cause, we were suddenly overwhelmed with big business deals that had to be done at the last minute. (Nike. Princess. 27 Dresses. Bam bam bam.) We were really pressed for time and, admittedly, were losing sight of creating something for Autism Awareness Month.
Finally, we had a short breath of fresh air, and actually got around to creating a sign for Heids and her friend DMSFR’s CafeMom group, Autism/Asperger’s/PDD Awareness. That’s DMSFR you see below, showing off our Autism Awareness sign – complete with jigsaw puzzle motif!
CafeMom users were super quick to start snatching up the sign. Their happy response has made us at Meez really proud of our effort, in fact, upon seeing the CafeMom thread about the history of the Meez sign, one of my co-workers asked “Okay, what else do these people want? What else can we make for them?”
Though it took a while, take this story as evidence that we at Meez are all about helping our users promote their causes. Though we do have to shuffle our priorities once in a while, enthusiasm like this makes it entirely worth it. Ladies, pump that sign up with pride!
If you’re a mom, you can learn more about Asperger’s syndrome, autism, and other spectrum disorders by getting in touch with the group that started it all! And yes, we made this sign available to both guys and girls, so go check out the animation!
Thanks, Heids. 
April 22, 2008 at 6:20 pm
I can’t say thank you enough
April 22, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Thanks so much for your support of Autism Awareness!!! Love it!
April 22, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Awesome Meez sign!! Way to go on helping with autism awareness!
April 22, 2008 at 7:34 pm
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!
April 22, 2008 at 7:59 pm
HEY! It’s MEEZ. No, really, that’s my Meez holding the sign. You all here at Meez are wonderful and so supportive and I can’t thank you enough for working with Heids on this. We love you!
April 22, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Thank you so much!!! Love seeing Dawn’s meez up here, and gonna go get my sign for my meez now!!! Thank you!
April 22, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Thank you so much for helping raise Awareness. Some of us moms were bummed that cafemom did not want to make a ribbon or smiley because if they support autism awareness they must support all awareness. I am thankful that those at Meez dedicated there time so that our Meez’ can have a voice in raising awareness. I love the sign and my Meez is promoting it at a Marathon. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
April 22, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Thank you so much for creating this sign for us in support of Autism Awareness month! And Heids, you rock!!
April 22, 2008 at 10:43 pm
This is more than just an Autism Awareness sign. It is a sign of sharing, caring and for those of us with kids on the spectrum it is a sign of hope that there are people out there who want to understand our children.
Thank you so much!
April 22, 2008 at 11:59 pm
A huge THANK YOU to all of you at meez. YOU ROCK! Supporting our cause and helping us raise Autism Awareness is greatly appreciated. :-}
April 23, 2008 at 1:33 am
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! Heids you are a hero, MEEZ guyz, you are as well
) I thank you, my autistic children thank you!!!!
Dawn you’re the most beautious MeezModel
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April 23, 2008 at 1:37 am
I can not thank you enough!! This has meant so much and it shows how much you all really do care about all causes and your users.
It’s sad that big giants like Yahoo can’t so much as even *try* to make something so simple, so sad! …. but I am extremely grateful to MEEZ for listening and helping raise awareness from such an important cause that is effecting a child every 20 mins.
I thank you again and again … words can not express how happy you have made me, my son and so many others families.
YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!! God bless you all!
April 23, 2008 at 1:44 am
Thank you so much for helping to spread the word. You guys rock!
April 23, 2008 at 10:56 am
THANKS so much! We LOVE IT and YOU too!
April 23, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Thank you soo much you have made many of us soo happy and i love the sign in fact its on my page already hehe.
April 23, 2008 at 11:13 pm
thank you so much for all your hard work on the autism awareness meez… i cant tell you how much that means to us….. thank you again!!!!
April 25, 2008 at 1:20 am
I placed the sign on my cafemom site and my home biz website too.
April 25, 2008 at 1:22 am
Thank you so much, this is a wonderful thing.
April 25, 2008 at 4:04 am
Thank you for all your efforts…any little bit helps us get the word out
April 25, 2008 at 4:38 am
Thank you so much for this Meez and the Zsmommy for making this possible.
April 25, 2008 at 1:19 pm
thanks ou for all you support!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 25, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Thanks Meez,
Thxs for helping spread the word about Autism Awareness! YOU Rock!
my meez, MLIZZA
April 25, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Meez, y’all ROCK! Thank you for helping us mom’s spread the word about Autism. It’s a shame we have to fight for awareness other places, but y’all jumped right on it and for that….Thank you so much!
April 26, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Thank you so much!!! Your participtation is much appreciated!!!
Wanda
April 30, 2008 at 12:54 am
I’ve got my sign too, I’m also an aspie kids mom of cafemom. thanks so very much for it. Meez is too cool.
April 30, 2008 at 1:34 am
i am a cm and the mom of autistic sons i can not say thank you enough there are no words thay can describe what a wonderful thing ya’ll have done
April 30, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Thank you for all the time and effort that went into this Autism Awareness sign and for supporting Autism Awareness. You Rock!!!
May 1, 2008 at 2:04 am
YES! gosh i love you ladies! I am so happy to see meez stepping up and helping us spread the word this is awesome! i just tried on my sign and it looks ttoooooo kewl! Thank you so much Meez you guys are wonderful! WHOO NEEDS A “O” When we got this huh!?!?! LMAO YAY! This just made my week!
May 1, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
June 30, 2008 at 5:33 am
Thank you for giving us a voice, by giving us a way to promote autism awareness. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.
By the way, I had written to Yahoo numerous times, and pleaded with them to create something, anything, for autism awareness for the avatars, and they said no.
It means a lot to me that you listened, and you cared, and you were willing to help.
Thank you.