I saw that a usually decent Russian website wrote that today is "The World Day of Spreading Information About the Problem of Autism" (Всемирный день распространения информации о проблеме аутизма).
At first, I was angry, because we are not a problem, and that website should know it.
But then I checked the United Nations' official translation of the day's name, and found a bunch of oddities.
So the English name is "World Autism Awareness Day". This is less awful than the Russian name "the problem of autism", although many #ActuallyAutistic people suggest changing "awareness" in the English name to "acceptance" or "inclusion".
In recent years, major progress has been made in increasing awareness and acceptance of autism, not least thanks to the many amazing autistic advocates who have worked tirelessly to bring the lived experience of autistic people to the wider world. Additionally, medical professionals, researchers and academics in many countries are now incorporating the neurodiversity paradigm, coined by sociologist Judy Singer in the late 1990s, in their work.
Amir E. Aharoni
Harmonia Amanda