Interested in giving back to the Autistic community?
Consider donating to Give the Gift of Stimming to help get stim toys to neurodivergent people in need.
The Give the Gift of Stimming campaign has received a tremendous response. I am amazed at the outpouring of love and support.
About 100 people in need signed up to receive stim toys, and while this campaign has received some very generous donations, I wasn’t sure we’d be able to afford stim toys for everyone.
So it was that I reached out to Cynthia Kim of @stimtastic to see if there was any kind of bulk discount available due to the volume of the order.
When I received Cynthia’s response, I cried.
This amazing human being who has already done so much for the autistic community offered to match my order, in essence, doubling the amount of stim toys I was able to procure.
Thanks to Cynthia’s generous donation, I now have in my possession stim toys for everyone who signed up to receive one. You can check out the video at the end of the post to see the unboxing.
However, despite the generous donations this campaign has received, I don’t yet have enough money to be able to ship everything to the recipients.
Many of the recipients are from unsafe homes where they are unable to buy their own stim toys or even have these gifts mailed to their own homes. Others simply cannot afford their own stim toys due to high rates of unemployment and underemployment in our community.
If you want to donate and are able to, please follow this link. It will take you to a pool where money is being collected to purchase stim toys for those who need them.
Let’s help make the holidays a bit brighter in our community!