Autism Vox’s Kristina Chew Quoted in Today’s New York Times

Our favorite body editor/editor mom tipped me off to this topic a few days ago, and I’ve been quietly following it ever since. So imagine my surprise and delight to find one of my fellow b5media bloggers quoted in a story about it in today’s NYT business section!

Excerpt: “While many individuals spoke to us about the need to continue the campaign, inadvertently we offended others,” said Dr. Harold S. Koplewicz, the Child Study Center’s founder and director, who estimated that he had received 3,000 e-mail messages and phone calls. Thirty percent of those praised the initiative, he said, and 70 percent expressed anger and hurt.

“One woman was crying to me on the phone that she felt alone and ashamed about her child and thanking me because the campaign captured how she felt,” he said. “But we also heard from some parents who are working day and night to help their children, and the way they read the ransom messages was that they weren’t doing enough.”

Ultimately, Dr. Koplewicz said, “I was concerned about the focus of the debate being on the ads rather than on the children.”

Kristina Chew, founder of the blog Autism Vox and the mother of a 10-year-old son with autism, praised the decision. “I’m very glad the campaign is over,” she said.

Read the whole article, and visit Kristina to tell her you saw it.

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