April is Autism Awareness/Acceptance month.
Here are a few friendly reminders:
Autism Speaks is a hate group.
They have never been able to maintain having an autistic individual on their board for longer than a few months.
They refer to autistic children as a burden. Constantly.
They do not provide even the slightest amount of support to autistic young adults and adults
They're more focused on "fixing" the child in order to relieve the burden on the parents.
They rescinded a woman's job offer after she requested childcare assistance for her autistic son.
They released a documentary where one of their founders discussed contemplating a murder/suicide of her autistic daughter. IN FRONT of her autistic daughter.
They released a fearmongering documentary called "I am autism" (produced by ALFONSO FUCKING CUARON) that included such content as “I am autism…I know where you live…I work faster than pediatric AIDS, cancer, and diabetes combined…I will make sure your marriage fails.”
They want you to "light it up blue" because "Autism spectrum disorders are almost 5 times more common among boys than among girls. So the color blue represents the boys diagnosed with autism." A screenshot of the statement taken directly from the Autism Speaks website is attached if you don't believe me. This promotes the erasure of autistic women, even though there's plenty of evidence to suggest that there's actually an even split, but that autism just manifests significantly different in girls and it's much more difficult to identify due to that.
In other words, fuck your blue lights.
Also vaccinate your fucking kids.
#autism #autistic #ActuallyAutistic
Petrichord
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