• Autism Speaks doesn’t help any autistic person and only 4% of their funds go to supporting families. Most of it goes to funding scientific research into prenatal testing and a “cure” for autism.
• Autistic people do not want cured in any way. I’ve had a few neurotypicals tell me there should be a cure and that I won’t even get a job or have any of my hopes and dreams achieved because I’m autistic. But I know that isn’t true.
• We’re not all clever in maths (in fact, I can’t do maths for the sake of me) and we’re not ALL into trains, computers, science and so on as our “special interests”. Excuse me, but my special interest’s They Might Be Giants! Haha, what else did you think it was?
• The puzzle piece is a terrible symbol and should never be used. It’s juvenile, and resembles that autism is a “puzzling” condition. It’s only ever puzzling when you’re new to it. It’s never puzzling if you know what it is, and especially if you know enough to want to cure it.
• ALSO: the colour blue literally suggests autism is a “boy’s condition”. Hello, I’m a girl with autism. I’m no different.
• Autistic people have feelings and emotions of all sorts too. Don’t bully us and expect to get away with it. Don’t say we’re all asexual. Don’t say we’re all clinically depressed. Don’t make fun of our meltdowns or whatever else. We all convey emotions in a different way, and that’s important to know.
Autistic and allistic people alike, please feel free to reblog this. It’s that daft time of the year again where everything will go wrong and allistics will wind up with those wrong opinions again.
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