AnthonyMar 25, 2019
Snow Fox of NYOOM ⚪

Reminder to y’all,

April is autism awareness month. Couple of things:

1) do not support Autism Speaks. At all. They silence the voices of actual autistic people and seek a “cure” and compare us to cancer

2) stop and call out others reducing autism to a punchline and/or insult

Mar 25, 2019 at 2:43amWeb
Show threadBen Lubar (any pronouns)Mar 25, 2019

@RussellTheFox

3) if someone says "ha ha are you autistic or something", the most devastating answer you can give them is a straightforward, completely factual "yes"

Show threadSnow Fox of NYOOM ⚪Mar 25, 2019
@ben from my own experience with that awful kind of humor, most do not care. They’ll double down. Even worse is others on the spectrum who have been desensitized by NTs to believe that dehumanizing themselves is not only “okay” but they’ll gaslight you and tell you you’re overreacting.
Show threadHaelwenn /элвэн/ Mar 25, 2019
@ben And another probably autistic person could say “and they forgot to ask which, so autistic _or_ something”.
Show thread𝚈𝙰𝚆𝙽 🌙Mar 25, 2019

@RussellTheFox

3.) stop fearmongering against chemicals because “they cause autism” as if it’s a bad thing to have autism.

i read an article today about a report that some pesticide causes autism and must be banned “at all costs” to ‘protect us and protect public health’ from autism. as if it wasn’t bad enough, a woman in the comments said she worked with autistic children and “loved her job,” but she “would be happy if there was no more autism”.

Show threadSnow Fox of NYOOM ⚪Mar 25, 2019
@yawn it just hurts me so much to see NTs treat autism like some awful and destructive disease. They’re so unaware of how much they dehumanize us and it upsets me so much.
Show threadUntitled Goose GayMar 25, 2019

@RussellTheFox

3) actually use CWs, because not doing so denies ND people any hope of using any platform without being consistently hurt

Show threadSnow Fox of NYOOM ⚪Mar 25, 2019
@Gaynebula this is good advice as well
Show threadVivee Mar 25, 2019

@RussellTheFox

THIS!! As an actual autistic, thanks for posting this