Repeat after me

Autism is not possession

Your child was not stolen from you

They are not contaminated

They are different. Their mind works differently than yours. Yes it still works. Yes it is weird. Yes it is wonderful.

Your child is not a witch. Burning their insides with proverbial fire and literal poison will not back the thing that was stolen from you.

The only thing that has been stolen from you was your humanity, the moment you looked upon your own child as anything other than exactly who they were supposed to be

And that is lost from you forever

We exist because we have to. We are the optimal solution to a problem most of you don't even see.

You can't from way up there. The solution stolen by the same reactive contagion that caused you to treat your child as a symptom to be corrected instead of a person to be understood

You see labels

We see effects

People used to be embarrassed to be this ignorant.

Now they're celebrated

#autism #disgust #doubleempathy #singularignorance