Things to know before April comes

autistic-sariel:

dogslover300:

#1: Autism is not a dangerous disease that needs to be cured!

#2: Autism speaks is a bad organisation that doesn’t listen to autistic people and portrays autism as a horrible disease.

#3: Most autistic people don’t want a cure.

#4: Vaccines don’t cause autism!

#5 Based on how autism works, ‘curing’ it in a live person is virtually impossible

#6 most “cures” for autism revolve around eugenics, i.e. Making sure we’re never born in the first place

#7 avoid using “functioning labels.” High-functioning is used to deny us support, low-functioning is used to deny us agency. This also goes for “mild” and “severe” autism.

#8 Forcing autistic people to behave in a way acceptable to neurotypicals that’s unnatural and often painful for us and punishing us when we don’t (often physically) is abusive. Let us be autistic in peace.

#9 if you’re looking for a good Autism-based organization to support, try Autistic Self Advocacy Network instead!