Hey guys,
So earlier in the month on my
Autism Daddy Facebook Page I
was pestering all my followers to vote for me in the Parents Magazine Social
Media Awards. I was up for “Best on
Facebook”
And if you didn’t hear already they announced the winners on the
Parents.com site today and I won!
So consider the following my acceptance speech…
I’d like to thank the Academy for this prestigious honor…
The vote was extremely close with another Facebook page
called
“Baby Sideburns”. That page is written
by a mom of typical toddlers and her site is HILARIOUS. And her site has over 150,000 followers while
mine has less than 43,000.
So the fact that I won is a testament to the power of all of
you… the power of autism parents… hear
us roar!
I especially want to thank my wifey for making all this
possible and for putting up with this blogging & Facebooking
foolishness. Hopefully one day my Autism
Daddy alter ego will pay the bills (when I get a million dollar book deal or
Bradley Cooper plays me in the movie version), but until then it’s foolishness…
and she puts up with it… 🙂
And I have to thank my son, the king, for making this all
possible. He is the light of my life and
I enjoy sharing his ups & downs with you all. If it wasn’t for him none of this would be
possible…And if it wasn’t for his autism I wouldn’t be blogging &
Facebooking and getting this prestigious honor…
And I wish I wasn’t getting this prestigious honor… As y’all know I’d trade in his
autism/epilepsy dual diagnoses in a heartbeat if I could and you can give the
award to “Baby Sideburns”.
But since I can’t trade it in I’ll accept this award with
pride for all the Autism Parents out there…and I’ll continue to do what I do
best…tell you all about our lives…with no filter…no sugar coating…no sunshine
& rainbows…just tell you all about the good, the bad, and the pee… I feel like that’s what you all have come to
expect from the Autism Daddy Experience… 🙂
So many are asking…
What did you win?
So here’s what I won… I won the right to use this badge…
And to claim the title of 2014 Parents Magazine Champion of
the Best Parenting Site on Facebook!!
And I will have a small feature in the May 2014 issue of Parents
Magazine…
That’s about it…
But I am honored to win this award and am honored to be one
of the only special needs pages represented.
Now the vote between me & “Baby Sideburns” was so close,
that I have to give a special shoutout to a few of my Autism Mom compadres who
I’m positive helped push me over the top.
Huge props go out to the moms behind the Facebook pages
Autism Hippie &
Autism With a Side of Fries for helping to rock the
vote. I think they wanted this win more
for me more than I did… Anyway HUGE
thanks to them! Go like their Facebook
pages. They are both awesome!
And Autism Hippie called me out on her page and said that if
I won I had to sing karaoke for you. So
while the band starts playing music under the end of my acceptance speech,
here’s two just godawful karaoke songs from yours truly…… (I never claimed to be a good singer)
Here’s the first verse of Guns n Roses “Patience”
And here’s the first verse of Bon Jovi’s “Wanted Dead or
Alive”
Oh wait, before they play me off the stage I also want to
thank my agent, my make up artist, my singing
coach (oh wait he’s fired), my stylist, (I’m wearing Old Navy jeans
& a Kirkland shirt), my mom and dad, the Hollywood Foreign Press, oops
wrong award show… I’m nervous… I never spoke in front of this many people befo… Oh
well they turned off the microphone…
Autism Hippie & the French Fry Lady let’s go to the
after-parties and get HAMMERED! I heard
Elton John always has the best after-party, right?
AUTISM DADDY OUT!
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i <3 autism hippies facebook page. I am not an autism mommy but i sure love reading the stuff you all go through and admire you guys for allowing us to follow your lives.
If you're interested in a REAL experience, I am happy to accommodate! He's asking for dinner. How quickly can you get here? :-)
I love you too Autism Hippie!!
Thx! :-)
The karaoke makes the countless times I voted worth it!
Lmao Great Job! That was so worth all the votes!!!
Cindy Birch Schaeffer from ,fb
"SPEECHLESS" ... LMFAO!!!!
That was awful. Just...awful! I mean that with nothing but love, from the bottom of my heart. Terrible. Congrats! :)
First round is on me Blogfather! And a side of fries. :-)
It better not be a round of FRENCH FRIES!! LOL
The 2nd round will be on me ...because I'm hammered after the 2nd round!!
Always knew you could and would!
Congrats!
So awesome you won!!! Love reading your posts as well as Autism Hippie and Autism with a side of fries, y'all crack me up on days I'd rather pull my hair out! With 2 boys and myself on the spectrum I know the ups, downs and the down right dirty where you wanna say a cuss word on a Tuesday and throw a Jimmy crack corn in there but our kids do something out of the blue that turns it all around for the better. Congratulations AD you deserve it ツ
Go Daddy, Go!!!!! You are too cool :)
Congratulations! :) An award well deserved and earned. Thanks for representing all us special needs and Autism families. Most of all though, thanks for always just being you. That's what makes your page and blog great. You're real and share it like it is. :)