Snow Fox of NYOOM ⚪Mar 25, 2019

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

Show threadBen Lubar (any pronouns)

@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"

Mar 25, 2019 at 3:40amWeb
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”.