#tw autism speaks

[maacottism]

january 31st be like

[autiebiographical]

Flashback Friday: Originally posted April 8, 2020

It's scary that this kit exists. It compares autism to cancer, tells parents to not accept their child's autism, tells them to mourn their VERY LIVING child because they're not neurotypical, and on and on. It's so disturbing.

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Hi everyone,

So, as you may or may not know, The Good Doctor is airing its last season.

I’ve heard mixed reviews about this show, so I was skeptical about watching it. However, my skepticism turned into anger as I came across THIS.

Freddie Hiemore isn’t even autistic himself. Another bad representation for us autistic people. And the fact that this was supported by and hate group makes it even worse. I found another article explaining the ableism and inaccuracy of said group.

Anyway, I’m happy the show is ending. Young Sheldon too. I don’t like it when the media makes autistic people so smart like savants, or to an offense way of portraying those with level 2-3 autistic people.

The media really needs autistic actors to play autistic people. They know what it’s like to be autistic and the struggles they can go through.

That’s all I had to say. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

[ndcultureis]

Autism Culture is getting my autism diagnosis, reading the long ass document they sent me about it, realizing im apparently also diagnosed with another thing nobody told me about and then i get suckerpunched with Autism Speaks as the last resource link at the very bottom of it all.

today sure is a Day.

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[unicornlovers10]

Autism Acceptance Month is coming up soon. So here's your annual reminder that the puzzle piece is a hate symbol, and Autism Speaks is an ableist hate group.

[clownrecess]

(TW FOR MENTIONS OF AUTISM SPEAKS)

I want to talk about Julia from Sesame Street, and how I feel about her.

Julia is a very comforting character for me, she makes me feel like I am represented, which I really appreciate. Julia has a comfort object like me. She stims like me. She uses AAC like me. She wears ear defenders like me. She is like me in a lot of ways.

I love Julia. I love her so much that I have a plushie of her, and I love it so so much!

As far as I am aware, Julia was made with ASAN, which is amazing!! Unfortunately, at some point Sesame Street dropped ASAN and switched to partnering with Autism Speaks, which is horrible. This makes me feel really upset, because an amazing character like Julia has been partially ruined for me by a hate group. I think that Julia is amazing representation, but that her having ties to AS really upsets me.

[writersmorgue]

my grandmother just

-sent me mail with my deadname on it

-wrote my name wrong IN the letter (it's just my middle name, that I've had my whole life, and she asked if she spelled it right??? girl you were at the hospital when they wrote it)

-sent me two glass vases, very shattered, in a mesh bag (I have tiny microscopic shards of glass embedded in my hand and on my bed)

-SENT ME AUTISM SPEAKS MERCH?????

i'm... let me just throw the whole family away. because no what the fuck is that. what. the. fuck. i need to scream into my pillow but there's GLASS IN IT.

[todarknessitfalls]

just found out jack black is a zionist and supports autism speaks………

why can't we have good things

[b00knerd1o1]

Don't support Autism Speaks!!!!

[debunkingfdc]

A handful of fdc users actually wholeheartedly support autism speaks and I'm not sure whether or not I should be surprised

what the fuck

[flappyhappystim]

how do you know about the kinetic sand people and autism speaks? Is there a source?

Hi anon,

Here’s one article

Here’s another

While this was 9 years ago, I haven’t seen them acknowledge the harm from Autism Speaks, so I can only assume they still support them.

[toondisneyartz]

Star Butterfly Commits Arson to Autism Speaks

This is your ANNUAL reminder to NOT donate to Autism Speaks or support them. Here are some other autism organizations to donate to: ASAN Autistic Women's and Nonbinary Network The Autistic People of Color Fund AANE Commission an actually autistic person

Star Butterfly is owned by Daron Nefcy and Disney TVA

Made using Procreate

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

My neurodivergent friends, what do you think about this?

I really don’t like the puzzle piece. It makes autistic people look like they are “puzzling” or that something is “missing” from us. It’s also the logo of the hate group Autism Speaks.

I understand that it has different meanings. But…I just don’t like it. At all.

That’s just my opinion, but I want to hear from you guys. What do you think of the puzzle piece? Do you think it represents autism as it should? Let me know.

[ndcultureis]

autism culture is wanting to go outside with a big sign saying "FUCK AUTISM SPEAKS"

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[everything-i-long-to-do]

I wish that the puzzle piece symbol wasn’t an Autism Speaks thing, because I thought that the symbol meant that autistic people are an essential part of the 'puzzle' of the community, and that the world would be incomplete without autistic people. They are an inherent part of the natural variance of human neurotypes.

But A$ feels pretty much the opposite of that, what with the eugenics thing . . . 🫠

[shitty-goose-quack]

so im not a parent of an autistic child but i was an autistic child, and can we please not say shit like "oh i just wish susie could talk it's so heartbreaking that i can't hear her voice when she's almost 5 years old" when susie does comunicate with signs etc?? hello?? do you not see how fucking weird that is?

or those documentaries where they make being non/semi verbal into this huge fucking problem and force the kid into speech therapy, and have 1 on 1 interviews with parents and grandparents saying how tragic it is for them that the kid can't talk, and how sad it makes them. and then they bring the camera to speech therapy and just ew like what the fuck.

if a child wants to talk (vocally) obviously speech therapy can be great, but the documentary only interviews the adults and they only talk about why they want the kids to talk, not about why their children would maybe want to express themselves, or interview/quote the kids with other means of comunication (talk buttons, type to speach, signs, etc)

and just because you can't talk doesn't mean you can't understand, the fucking dhit they're saying in front of the kid reads like an autism speaks ad istg