Oh, hey, it's APRIL already! I forgot!

It is time for my yearly question:

Is Everybody Aware That Autism Exists?

You are? Great! Well, that's autism awareness over and done with for another year. I've got posters if you need 'em, somebody linked me to them somewhere.

Incidentally, is anybody familiar with E. L. Konigsburg? Well, you've all at least heard of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, no doubt, but I mean the rest of her stuff? I've read a lot of her work, and she's really pretty good at slipping neurodiversity-related issues into them, although I don't know if she knows she's doing that. Like the main character's best friend in Silent to the Bone (who is, in fact, the one silent) reads like an aspie all over, and (george) is about... actually, I forget, but the message (one of them) is that being plural (multiple personalities) isn't a bad thing in and of itself, that more danger comes from changing functioning systems than by letting them be, however strange they might seem to everybody else.

I don't think I've ever seen that specific message in fiction before, least of all in a kid's book.

This is the trouble with April Fool's Day.

First, it's April Fool's, so run of the mill pranks just won't cut it anyway, everybody will be expecting them.

But here's the thing. YOU want to be FUNNY. Well... it's possible to be funny, but then you probably won't catch anybody. They'll all have a good laugh at the joke, but they won't be fooled. (Which is probably just as well if you're pranking online, because you can't see their reaction to being fooled anyway.)

Or you can fool people, but then nobody laughs, they just get upset, and it's not funny at all.

So your options are: Be really over the top and fool nobody OR be less over the top and fool everybody but they don't forgive you for a year.

Neither one of which really is a good option. *sighs*