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clownrecess · 1 year

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Self indulgent unapologetically autistic stimboard!

(To help get you through the upcoming month of April)

With themes of red, gold/yellow, and stimming!

Credits:

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itsaspectrumcomic · 1 month

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Every month is autism month for me!

[ID: A comic titled "April is Autism Acceptance Month!"

The narrator, a light skinned person with brown hair, says "You might see some places "lighting it up blue" or sharing puzzle piece imagery this month, but a lot of autistic people prefer to avoid that due to its association with Autism Speaks." Within the speech bubble is a blue puzzle piece with a red cross next to it. The narrator continues, "Autism Speaks sees autism as a disease that needs to be cured and eradicated, which it isn't. So to avoid that, we generally prefer RED instead!" The words "red instead" are shown on the narrator's shirt.

The narrator continues, "or the golden infinity symbol: (it's gold because au is the symbol for gold in the periodic table." There are illustrations of a gold infinity symbol and the periodic table symbol for gold, made to say "autism", next to the text.

Text continues "Not every autistic person celebrates autism acceptance month which is fine! It's optional :)

At the bottom, the narrator wears a red shirt with the gold infinity symbol on it and says "whether you celebrate or not, I hope you have a lovely month." End ID]

Thank you @teatual for the description!

#autism #actually autistic #autism acceptance #autism acceptence month #red instead #described #image described

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starplatinumnun · 2 years

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can you infodump to me? (i love you) is this overwhelming? (i love you) is this the right texture? (i love you) is it ok to touch you? (i love you) do you want the subtitles on? (i love you) do you want to go somewhere less noisy? (i love you)

#actuallyautistic #autism #autistic #this is about what love feels like to me as an autistic person with neurotypical family and friends #you are more than welcome to add your own experiences!#red instead #autism acceptance #neurodivergent #my writing

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spectrumgarden · 1 month

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This autism month please remember those of us who:

need verbal prompting (someone telling us each single, small step to a task) or hands on help for things like showering, getting dressed, cooking simple meals, using a toilet ....

who struggle to go outside alone or cant do it all, not out of fear or no motivation or anything but because we keep getting lost and cant find our way back, because the outside world is like a blurry maze that never becomes more logical no matter how many times we have walked that street, because we need help with mobility aids, or can not understand that cars are dangerous, other people can be dangerous, ...

whose bodies dont listen to what our brains tell it to do. Whose bodies throw things when we didnt tell it to, told it to stop. Who hit our head against the walls while wishing we could stop. Whose bodies freeze when we tell it to move. Not just for a task we are unable to start, but any movement at all. I dont mean when i'm stuck scrolling through my phone thinking about how much i should do that task but cant, I mean when im sitting on the kitchen floor and staring into space for an hour unable to even lift my hand to scratch my nose.

Those of us that will never work a job outside of sheltered workshops, if at all.

Who drool and scream and jump and hum and rock in the waiting room at the doctors office, on public transport, ...

#actually autistic #autistic adult #autistic community #actually disabled #medium support needs #autism acceptance month #autism awareness month #red instead

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autiebiographical · 2 months

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We're coming up to Autism Acceptance Month!

Remember! Don't light it up blue!

Let's #LightItUpGold or #RedInstead

You can check out my shop for this shirt and many other autism themed items designed by yours truly at https://www.autiebiographical.com/store

#light it up gold #red instead #autism acceptance #autism acceptance month

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loxli · 22 days

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It’s Autism acceptance month again! So here’s a Chu Wanning with his lovely red haitang and golden willow vine

#2ha #the husky and his white cat shizun #Chu wanning #autism acceptence month #red instead #certainly one of the most autism characters of all time

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niknikkii · 1 month

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happy autism acceptance month!!

#art #artwork #digital art #drawing #autism #actually autistic #autism acceptance month #autism acceptance #anti autism speaks #light it up gold #red instead #autistic #autism spectrum #on the spectrum

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chelledoggo · 1 month

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I am NOT a puzzle to be "solved." I am NOT a problem to be "eradicated." I am NOT a sickness to be "cured." I AM an extraordinary being. I AM created in the image of the divine. I AM exactly who I am meant to be. I AM... infinite.

Happy Autism Acceptance Month! ♾ ❤

#RedInstead version:

#autism #actually autistic #autism acceptence month #neurodiversity #chelle art #red instead

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boingodigitalart · 1 month

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Happy Autism Awareness day and Autism Acceptance Month 2024!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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digitalmagpie · 1 year

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It was brought to my attention on a different social media platform that there was a lack of this type of information in Spanish. I don't speak the language, but one of our group members does and created this to be shared. Credit to Merianne Riestra.

#autism things #red instead #autism speaks doesn't speak for me #autism stuff #autism acceptance

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zeroar · 1 year

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An Open Letter to the People Who Support Autism Speaks

Autism Speaks is eighteen years old. The age they should start dismissing themselves as being an authority on autism like they do with autistic adults if they cared about consistency at all.

They were founded in 2005 by a couple of Hollywood executives who grieved the diagnosis of their grandchild. This was a full dozen years after the seminal "Don't Mourn For Us" by Jim Sinclair was penned and presented.

From the beginning, Autism Speaks was anti-autism. They sought a "cure" they could use to erase our existence from the planet, they fomented anti-vax conspiracies which are still plaguing our society today, and they fostered and continue to foster an environment supportive and understanding of child-murder.

But. They were connected to celebrity. And they had the endowment and reach to become the largest anti-autism group in the nation and world.

The primary method of advertising which Autism Speaks used from the beginning is known as "fear appeal".

Typically, they frame autistic children as changeling-like creatures which replace the allistic or neurotypical child you had with one which will never love you and will tear apart your family.

Autism Speaks spotlights the worst of having an autistic family member and pulls the drapes on any mitigating circumstances or assistance. They emphasize the burden we are and the harm caused to our families by our existence.

Autism Speaks then goes on to frame themselves as being the solution and the experts on everything autism. They say, don't listen to autistic people, listen to their parents and other people who have been negatively affected by their existence. Listen to these cherry-picked examples.

They talk vaguely about support for autistic children and families while they campaign ceaselessly to find the genes which contributed to making us... so they can unmake us.

As you might expect for people who frame themselves as being the victim of their children's existences, they have been easily taken in by snake-oil salesmen and conspiracy theorists.

To this day, Autism Speaks continues to emphasize the "environmental causes of autism" even while fully knowing (from the millions of dollars of research they put in pursuing a debunked study) that autism appears to be primarily genetic and our environment really only affects our presentations as autistic, not our realities as autistic.

"Environmental causes" is a dog whistle for vaccines because they no longer feel it is profitable for them to explicitly encourage widespread death and alternative disabilities of children, so they have started only alluding to it and finally, years after the study was debunked and retracted, agree that vaccines do not cause autism.

"Environmental causes" is also a dog whistle for things like heavy metal poisoning causing autism and various other external things that can be "taken care of" via chelation therapy and bleaching our insides. Yes, Autism Speaks is at least partially responsible for spreading bleach "cures".

I believe they've taken it down since I first started advocating for SPLC to recognize Autism Speaks as a hate group—something autistic persons have recognized for years—but as recently as a year ago they were still directing people to seek out these "cures".

They worded it in such a way that it was, "These 'cures' do not work and can cause harm, but you should talk to people who tried them for their children and see for yourself."

It's cruelty for cruelty's sake. Or it's believing scientifically disproven things in a way that promotes the torture of children.

Which brings us to arguably their biggest crime against humanity and against autistic people specifically thus far: the advancement of behaviorism or behavioral conditioning as the "treatment" for autism.

Behaviorism, that is, conversion therapy torture. When done on autistic people, it is commonly called ABA or PBS.

This is another reason why they cling to "environmental causes", because behaviorism is entirely consumed with external presentation.

Autism is a pervasive neurological state which colors every aspect of our lives. Their "solution" is to deny our reality, break us to their will, and have us pretend to be "normal".

Through their efforts, they have ensured conversion therapy is not just used, but frequently the only choice for covered treatment of autistic children.

I say "choice", but the torture is sometimes court-mandated (and this is more common when the parents are marginalized-by-society in some way themselves).

Autism Speaks is so very proud of their government influence. Shortly before I started the petition, I watched in horror as their testimony scuttled a bill at the state level intended to help autistic children which had the support of their parents because not enough torture was included in the "help".

People say they've "changed", yet it's not like their institution is so hallowed and sacrosanct that it is necessary to keep around even as it is continues to encourage harm and death to autistic children and autistic adults.

Autism Speaks is the multi-headed hydra of anti-autism rhetoric and hate in the world today. They have so many branches and have infiltrated so deeply that many of their supporters ( I hope ) are not even aware of the hateful rhetoric and active harm they spread.

People tend not to even question the premise that autistic humans are better off dead than alive, people have for ages not even thought of us as human. Autism Speaks recommends starting behavioral conditioning as early as possible in children as young as two. The least intensive programs they recommend are for dozens of hours a week.

This is what they recommend, push, and lobby for with *all* autistic children.

If they become able to accurately recognize autism in a fetus, then their genocide and eugenics will only accelerate. I am pro-abortion, but no one should be coerced into an abortion with lies and one-sided propaganda.

Showing hateful rhetoric and catastrophizing about our existence to a newly pregnant person is similarly abominable as the sort of thing anti-choice people do.

Autism Speaks has not changed, though they have gotten better at pretending normality. Maybe they put themselves through conversion therapy torture to learn how to pretend to be a force of good while being sympathetic of child murderers?

Or, you know, they've hired publicists and PR people.

If you were duped by them, I'm sorry that their hate is not more well-known. Can you imagine if the first place you felt supported you and understood your struggles was the bad guy? Who would think that by default?

But they are the bad guy. And they're using you. Preying on your isolation and desire for community and support.

They start early. Constant public outreach. Working with cops. University chapters. There may even be entire branches under their umbrella that are actively dedicated to good. But they support the hate and harm by supporting Autism Speaks.

If you support Autism Speaks, then you support the elimination of autism.

If you believe their fear-driven propaganda designed to earn more money for themselves, that may sound like a good thing to you.

But you cannot eliminate autism without eliminating the autistic person, too.

We cannot turn off our autism, some of us can pretend normality—frequently to our great misfortune—but others can't do that either. It's similar to what happens when you force queer people through conversion therapy torture / behaviorism regimes.

There is not some hidden switch in our brains to "fix" us. Even if there was, we would not be ourselves, we would be different people. You cannot separate autism from the autistic.

If this letter spoke to you, I hope you will consider signing my petition to get the Southern Poverty Law Center to track anti-disability hate and to recognize Autism Speaks as an anti-autism group.

You can find the petition here:

Thank you for reading, Zero Richardson

#actually autistic #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent #neurodiversesquad #behaviorism is torture #aba is abuse #autism speaks #autism speaks is a hate group #autism acceptance #autism awareness #acceptance not awareness #red instead #splc #southern poverty law center

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clownrecess · 1 year

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(tw for ableism)

I want to talk about a more negative part of being an AAC user, that being the embarrassment and anxiety I experience from it.

AAC is extremely useful for me, and I feel empowered by it. However, I also feel anxiety and embarrassment sometimes. Not because of being an AAC user, but because of how society treats me being an AAC user.

Personally, I have experienced embarrassment around using AAC in different situations. For example, I have felt self-conscious about using my device in public places such as restaurants, shops, or crowded events. I have also felt embarrassed when people stare at me or ask questions about my device, which can make me feel like a spectacle.

Another source of embarrassment for AAC users can be the feeling of being judged or misunderstood by others. People might think that we are less intelligent or capable because we use AAC instead of oral speech, which isn't true at all, being nonspeaking does not mean I am nonthinking.

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autistic-people-are-awesome · 1 month

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#auti #actually autistic #actullyautistic #autistic problems #autistic #asd #autism #red instead #light it up red #autism acceptance month

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smolbtne · 1 year

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Hell yeah it’s almost that time of the year again

#autism acceptance #autism acceptence month #red instead #light it up red instead #autism speaks is a hate group

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spectrumgarden · 1 year

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If I can have one wish for upcoming autism month it's that more people recognize that the spectrum includes people who are medium support and such, maybe include us in conversations more. I can't tell you how much arguments in this community forever feel like low support versus high support, and I'm left feeling invisible and like I belong nowhere.

Yes I will never need the amount of care some others do, no I will never need as little care as some others do. It's hard to make anyone understand, family or friends, that this is how I am. They know I'm not high support, and anything else they see in media is usually low support. When I was diagnosed, my mother exclusively read books about or by low support autistics. So to them, that's what they often expect me to be like, or to achieve one day. Everyone calls it a spectrum but most people still treat it like just, a coin with two sides, forgetting everything that isn't two extremes.

#actually autistic #autistic adult #autistic community #medium support needs #autism acceptance month #red instead

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factoidfactory · 28 days

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Autism Acceptance Month Fact #16

It's misleading at best to say that the number of autistic people is growing, as the diagnosis is fairly new and thus we don't have enough data to claim this.

For example, when being left-handed stopped being stigmatized, the number of lefties "shot up" because left-handed people no longer had to pretend to be right-handed. There weren't more left-handed people being born, they had always been around.

Similarly, it's extremely possible that the numbers we're seeing have always been the case but as there was no diagnosis before people didn't know they were autistic. As the diagnosis becomes more well-known by doctors it's unsurprising that more people who fit the criteria are discovered.

#did you know #random fact #random facts #little known fact #random factoid #random factoids #yes really #autism awareness #autism spectrum disorder #autism acceptance #neurodiversity #asd #autism acceptence month #autism awareness month #red instead #epidemiology

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