April 2 is World Autism Awareness Day

April 2 is World Autism Awareness Day. Autism is a neural development disorder wherein the brain processes information differently. This difference in brain processing makes people with Autism relate to the world differently. They do not and cannot see the world the way we do. They have social impairments and often lack the intuition about others that many people take for granted.

My nephew Joaquin was diagnosed with a form of Autism called Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified or PDD-NOS when he was around two years old. Because of early identification and early intervention however, social and familial deficits that his Autism would have most probably caused have been diminished, if not avoided, and he and our family enjoy a significantly better family life.

April 2 is only one day. Help us spread awareness of Autism and the immense challenges people with Autism like our Joaquin, face 365 days a year.

I designed the logo above for my sister, Joaquin's mother, as part of her advocacy to help Autism awareness and how early identification and intervention can be of help to families touched by Autism. If everything goes well, we may be designing more materials such as this.

Here're two portraits I've made of Joaquin. Enjoy!

Joaquin; Digital Illustrations

NAPOLEON ABUEVA

"Mang Billy" Filipino National Artist for Sculpture Napoleon Abueva. Brush and ink portrait. Napoleon Abueva (January 26, 1930 – February 16, 2018), more popularly known as Napoleón Abueva, was a Filipino artist. He was a sculptor given the distinction as the Philippines' National Artist for Sculpture. He was also entitled as the "Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture". He was awarded National Artist of the Philippines in the field of Visual Arts.

Edith Tiempo

Filipino National Artist for Literature Edith Tiempo. Ballpen and markers. Edith L. Tiempo (April 22, 1919 – August 21, 2011), poet, fiction writer, teacher and literary critic was a Filipino writer in the English language.Her poems are intricate verbal transfigurations of significant experiences as revealed, in two of her much anthologized pieces, "Lament for the Littlest Fellow" and "Bonsai." As fictionist, Tiempo is as morally profound. Her language has been marked as "descriptive but unburdened by scrupulous detailing." She is an influential tradition in Philippine Literature in English. Together with her late husband, writer and critic Edilberto K. Tiempo, they founded (in 1962) and directed the Silliman National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete City, which has produced some of the Philippines' best writers.She was conferred the National Artist Award for Literature in 1999.

Halo-halo

Digital illustration; 2014 Halo-halo (Tagalog language for "Hodge-Podge") is a popular Filipino dessert with mixtures of shaved ice and evaporated milk to which are added various boiled sweet beans, jello and fruits, and served in a tall glass or bowl. from wikipedia

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