An Autism Awareness Day Event

A brief, personal account of an Autism Awareness Day event organised by NAS West Norfolk.

INTRODUCTION

This is a brief post devoted to an event that took place at Gaywood Community Centre today.

THE EVENT

As someone who lives in the centre of King’s Lynn there was only ever one way I would be getting to an event in Gaywood: walking. Although principally concerned with locating the event I did get one pic en route…

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I heard the event before I actually saw it because they had a live music act performing…

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After briefly taking in what was on offer I headed to the main National Autistic Society stall, picked up a flier and took some photographs…

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I spent £2 on tombola tickets and £1 on a keyring (It was an NAS keyring featuring Thomas the Tank Engine – as an autistic railway fanatic named Thomas I could hardly not buy it!).

I did not stay terribly long, but I was very favourably impressed – while it was not really my type of event it was very vibrant and very well attended – well done the NAS. The homeward journey yielded another couple of pictures…

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