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Reminder as Autism Acceptance/ Awareness Month/week/day approaches. Please share this around. I’ve added some links that can be educational to those that don’t understand about Autism Speaks and the Puzzle Piece symbol and ABA Therapy and why they are harmful and offensive to the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 
There’s rumours being spread by the Anti-Neurodiversity bullies online trying to silence Autistic people and our voices by trying to convince people that everyone who uses the ActuallyAutistic tag is self-diagnosed, faking being autistic or “fauxtistic” as ko-fi.com/post/Self-diag…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
So here goes for the following written information…. Just because you haven’t heard about any of this... doesn’t make it not true. And just because you like “x,y and z”and you’re autistic or a parent of an autistic person... it doesn’t make the following not true. Please don’t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
So let this be a reminder as Autism Awareness/ acceptance week/ month is coming up… DO NOT SUPPORT National Autistic Society in the UK. @Autism #autism #autistic #AutismAwareness #AutismAcceptance #actuallyautistic #allautistics
If you want to learn more about this therapy and how harmful it is then here’s a link to a document explaining what it is and how it’s harmful and it includes links to the research studies that prove ABA/ PBS therapy is harmful docs.google.com/document/d/11_…
@abaukdiscussion #BanABA… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@abaukdiscussion #BanABA… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Also for YEARS the National Autistic Society’s young Autistic ambassadors have tried to get them to make a statement against PBS therapy and to STOP funding it and hiring ABA/PBS therapists but so far they’ve had zero luck. #autism #autistic #ActuallyAutistic #allautistics… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
I’m happy to report the string of 4,736 radio ads I’ve heard in the #GASenate runoff has been broken!!
I’m sad to report the ad which did it was a “we can fix your broken kid” ad by #AutismSpeaks.
Give autistic people 1% of their bloated budget & watch the world change. 💯
I’m sad to report the ad which did it was a “we can fix your broken kid” ad by #AutismSpeaks.
Give autistic people 1% of their bloated budget & watch the world change. 💯
I’m serious. Give autistic adults 1% of the budget of any big autism group and things would be SO MUCH BETTER for parents, kids, and us.
I’ve repeatedly said that to neurotypical people, but to quote Georgia native André 3000 “Y’all don’t want to hear me, you just wanna dance.”
I’ve repeatedly said that to neurotypical people, but to quote Georgia native André 3000 “Y’all don’t want to hear me, you just wanna dance.”
It seems that every week I’m contacted by someone I know who has someone in their life who is a parent of a newly diagnosed autistic kid.
I spend SO MUCH TIME filling in the gaps that autism groups don’t fill-in because they EXCLUDE autistic people from their leadership...
I spend SO MUCH TIME filling in the gaps that autism groups don’t fill-in because they EXCLUDE autistic people from their leadership...
This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: Protecting Disability Rights
Only one party has a specific plan to secure the rights of Americans with Disabilities and will fight to enact all appropriate legislation that addresses these rights. #NoBarriers 1/10
Only one party has a specific plan to secure the rights of Americans with Disabilities and will fight to enact all appropriate legislation that addresses these rights. #NoBarriers 1/10
One in four American adults live with a disability. #Democrats believe people with disabilities deserve to lead full, happy, and healthy lives. 2/10 #DemPartyPlatform #CripTheVote #NoBarriers
#Democrats will fully enforce the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the Fair Housing Act, the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act..3/10 #DemPartyPlatform #ADA #IDEA #FairHousingAct #CRIPA #CripTheVote
🚨🧵Here’s a thread to cover some additional thoughts on the new #AutismSpeaks logo (and on them):
You know that Autism Speaks didn’t design their logo with the autistic community because, if they had, we would have instead focused them on redesigning their organization first.
You know that Autism Speaks didn’t design their logo with the autistic community because, if they had, we would have instead focused them on redesigning their organization first.
Form follows function. The truth is that Autism Speaks has only one token autistic board member and only a few - if that - token autistic staff.
That frame is one reason why its programming is currently facing budget cuts, why it gets creative in positively telling the abysmal numbers hidden in its annual report, and why #AutismSpeaks continues to fail autistic people and our families day after day.
I just have one thing to say about #AutismAwarenessWeek and that is this;
It’s fucking disgusting.
It’s fucking disgusting.
Look, I get you want to seem like you’re helping the autistic community, but so called ‘awareness’ is not the way to do that.
Most people are already aware of autism anyway.
Most people are already aware of autism anyway.
What autistic people want is acceptance.
