Celebrating Our 75th Year in Business
“Your Jerrol’s Journal”
April 2022
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Kyah’s Story
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Kyah’s Story .....................................Page 1 April is Autism Acceptance Month ..Page 2 Little Blue Truck's Springtime..........Page 2 Sledge is Here ...................................Page 2 Mask Only Shopping & Curbside.....Page 2 FREE Watercolor Demo ...................Page 3 FREE Golden Acrylic Demo ............Page 3 Craft of the Month ............................Page 3 Client Comments ..............................Page 4
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Our Core Values #3 - Diversity
Everyone has something to teach us and to contribute to our business and personal lives.
_____________________ • People who are different from us are way more interesting than people who are like us. • We learn new and interesting things from other backgrounds, cultures, life experiences. • Learning about other people expands our understanding of the world. • It is the right thing to do. _____________________
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Hi everyone, I’m autistic and I work here at Jerrol’s. It’s Autism Acceptance, Awareness, and Appreciation month so I get to write whatever I want here! On the front page no less. Something I wanted to tell people is that not all autistic people grow up with loving parents who support them and accept them. If you are a parent reading this, you probably wouldn’t imagine ever telling your child that no one will ever like them, and they will never have friends because of their personality, but that’s what my mom always told me. She thought my interests were annoying so I learned to journal and draw to myself and create worlds outside of reality in my room. For me, I grew up with an absent dad who was in and out of prison, and both my parents were addicts. Some autistic kids go to school and get bullied, then go home and experience the same thing. When you’re autistic and don’t visibly look any different from anyone else, people often don’t understand you and ostracize you. When your version of socializing is different from others, it can take a very special person to be your friend. I think parents can teach their children to love and accept people with disabilities, and if parents taught their children autism acceptance and unconditional inclusion when I was in school I think I would have felt less isolated. Growing up, all I wanted was routine but I had to move schools over 15 times. My stability was school and it was somewhere I enjoyed being because I could learn. I’ve overcome a lot of difficulties and I think my autism makes me stronger and I love being autistic. I don’t like to think of my autism as the things that hold me back exclusively, I think of it as an experience, a lifetime of moments. It’s sensory overload, wearing earplugs and noise cancelling headphones, noticing small details, falling in love with hobbies, obsessing over mistakes, extreme loneliness, extreme happiness, hand flapping, finding love, needing support, being misunderstood, keeping thoughts inside, pouring out information like a broken faucet, meltdowns, and recuperating. Inside, autism is a very intense experience that’s hard to describe, but one thing I know is that using labels like “mild” or “severe” overlook the complexity of autism. If autism can be mild, is mine spicy or what? See, I don’t really get those kinds of labels. Anyways, I prefer when people use descriptive language like “high support needs” versus “low support needs” or “nonverbal/ semi verbal” because it gives me a better understanding of the person being described. Thanks for reading, -Kyah We are so lucky to have Kyah choose to join our Team. She often gives us a mini science lesson during our morning huddles on subjects ranging from how plants communicate with each other through their roots to international reserve currency! - Rolf