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Eastern Michigan Students March For Autism Acceptance

Eastern Michigan University

Dozens of people marched across Eastern Michigan University's campus Wednesday to promote autism acceptance.

It's part of a larger national effort to raise awareness for autismduring the month of April.

Sally Burton-Hoyle is an EMU professor who helped organize the march. She says they want to broaden people's horizons and get them to realize autism is not a "scary word."

"There's a real stereotype about what autism is.  People have seen 'Rain Man' or they've seen a person with autism," Hoyle says.

"One of the mottos in the world of autism is, 'if you've met a person with autism, then you've met a person with autism,' because everybody is so very different."

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— Taylor Pinson is a writer/reporter for 89.1 WEMU News.  Contact him at 734.487.3363 or email him studio@wemu.org

Taylor Pinson is a former WEMU news reporter and engineer.
Taylor Pinson is a former WEMU news reporter and engineer.
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