Boycott Autism Speaks!

Happy World Autism Acceptance (not awareness) Day! Remember to NOT support Autism Speaks as the organization is harmful for Autistics, not helpful. Don’t light it up blue. Go with #redinstead for actually Autistics.

Here are our favorite Autistic characters ❤️:

I ACTUALLY ASKED MY LOCAL HOME DEPOT TO STOP SELLING"LIGHT IT UP BLUE / AUTISM SPEAKS LIGHT BULBS AND THEY DID STOP! WOOT! :D

Good Riddance ableist show.

Hey guys just so you know that @/theautismcafe has now deleted her Twitter account and I’m happy to see that ableist Adult mother gone

If you don’t know why I do not like her and how she is an ableist woman and supports Autism $peaks this is why I hope you have A Variable lesson of not supporting hate groups like this in fact please do support autistic people

I had to do a slide deck for class, on a topic of my choice, and now I’m getting that feeling of not being “autistic enough” because I did mine on boycotting autism speaks and used “us” when referring to the autistic community 😅

Oh god, it’s 2022 lmao

Gotta update bio and stuff, idk if I’ll actively use this account, but while I’m here let me stake my claim:

If you see any post showing a linear ‘spectrum’ and the more accurate color wheel spectrum, it’s an iteration of this post from 2015. I have not seen anything like it with an earlier date.

I’m not as certain about this one but I also made a crappy infographic about autism organizations in 2017 which I’ve also seen a bunch of variations on and I think mine may have been first, too.

Not mad about any of this btw. Very happy to see people sharing these ideas, usually with way better art lmao.

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk, see y’all in a few years when I remember about this account again 💕

Godzilla has been spotted rampaging across Autism Speaks headquarters.

Don't support Autism Speaks!!!!

Autism Speaks does not speak for me.

ewwwww ew austim spe*ks ad no thank you

When I told my mom to stop eating Chick-fil-A for a while, she didn't listen. When I begged her to stop supporting Autism Speaks, she rolled her eyes.

So, I didn't tell my mom about the Isreal boycott.

How could I?

I am gay, I am autistic, and she knew both of these things when I asked her to stop supporting things that would aim to hurt me.

She ignored my request to not eat at Chick-fil-A when it was donating its money to hurt queer people, she refused to listen to me when I gave her evidence of Autism Speaks wanting to hurt autistic people, she even went out of her way to tell me that they were "right"

I still remember the dinner when she told me that "some autistic people have it worse than me" and "some of them really do need a cure" and that that was why autism speaks was good. Remember how pissy she got when I made her take down the baby blue porch light, how long it took her to actually agree to switch lights. (Weeks, maybe even months. At one point she told me to just imagine it was a blue lives matter light instead, which made me feel sick)

If she couldn't stop supporting one place that was hurting her own daughter, how can I expect her to stop supporting a hundred places that are hurting someone she's never even met?

I love my mom, but sometimes I wonder why

This is a list of current supporters of Autism Speaks, taken directly from their website. I know not everyone is capable of boycotting, but if you are and you want to know who start with these guys.

Autism Speaks is a hate group, and they do not speak for me.

CW: ableist, bullying, False information, ABA.

Eileen lamb aka @/theautismcafe Is a mother with two children with Neurodiversity disabilities and she is well known as she works for Autism $peaks And when it comes to her free speech and her saying that we are bad guys, She is also pulling the Victim card on us because we are the ones that are treating her like trash but guess what she is the one that is putting the blame on herself because she doesn’t want to listen to us she cares about Her precious fans and tells them That she’s being bullied,

If you don’t know why here is two images of her crying about autistic people Harassing her and another one that she said that she’s “autistic” but she’s being called an ableist woman when she said that she’s “autistic” Which she using autism as excuse to being a ableist person In fact it could be many ways that people would use Autism as an excuse like using it as a crime, using it as a way to hurt and abused people for sexual abuse Or to manipulate people etc. in fact their are just too many bad people that use Victim blame to Cover their tracks, But many people Are going to the comment section and be like why are you saying that in fact Eileen is not a ableist person in fact she listens to everyone and she is a good mom Well yeah like I see this one right there that she said that otherwise that she would listens to us,

But what bothers me the most is that she wants to compare ABA to life skills, helping parents, and to have a better life for their Autistic children, It’s like everything that Non-disabled people want is trying to convince them that ABA is not abuse like you can’t change the history and Research you know it was made by a homophobic man Who he wanted people with sexuality and gender to be straight and Cis that is Called “gay conversion therapy” And it’s the same thing to ABA knows as “applied behavior analysis” for autism, But yet again this is like a slap in the face when she said stuff like “I disagree in fact ABA is not abuse like come on stop being a Bunch of Snowflake”

And another thing is that when she said that AAC is helpful but in reality she doesn’t like AAC So the company Autism $peaks wants to pass a bill for schools To not allow access for Nonverbal autistic kids for the use of AAC Or other helpful and Good alternatives, In fact This posted had been one year later and she came up with the use of pulling up Another victim blaming And another destructive lies of trying to cover their tracks but with this time By blaming a another Autistic advocates by the name of @notanautismmom

In fact this poor young woman has been Fighting for the right simply because she’s telling the truth of Autism $peaks trying to take away AAC for Nonverbal autistic kids and she has been facing in harassment by Eileen lamb,

In fact I am sick and tired of her bullcrap just because that she’s being called out and saying that she is upset by autistic people but she being an ableist woman she is not a good person whatsoever and people should not be defending Eileen lamb at all like in fact why can’t people just listen to us why can’t people just let us be who we want to be instead of treating us like We’re burdens This is why that she is just making excuses for us excuses and for all that she works for autism $peaks just proves how ableist she is, Also I don’t care if Eileen lamb is autistic In fact autistic or not she needs to not pull the victim Card Nor treat us like garbage it is not right it is disrespectful and she knows that what she’s doing is wrong and that including her working for Autism $peaks and for her Disgusting behavior In fact as an autistic person like myself you know I don’t support hate groups like this I support love and Accept I support the parents of autistic children who Actually love them for no matter what, No one deserves to be punished no one deserves to be treated like we’re Puzzle pieces or burdens, no one deserves to be treated like we are disease, we deserve to be treated like We’re human Like we are welcome to this world in fact we deserve better #Nothingwithuswithoutus