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A reminder for allistic people this April not to support Autism Speaks

Autism Speaks is basically the equivalent to an autism hate group. As a group Autism Speaks has a long history of causing damage to the autistic community. Their ad campaigns have spread so much negativity and fear about autism. They often speak of autism as if its a negative thing that steals children away, often refer to autistic children as "missing", and view it autism as an epidemic. They once released an ad titled, "I am Autism" in which they compared autism to cancer, claim autism causes parents to divorce, and framed autism as an evil thing that steals children away from their parents. If you watch the video it is very telling about how the organization views us autistic people, though huge trigger warning for the video.

This isn't just a thing of the past, however, as Autism Speaks is still pushing resources that stigmatizes us and harms autistic people. Their most recent work, the 100 Day Kit, encourages parents to blame their family difficulties on their autistic child. It uses phrases like, "When you find yourself arguing with your spouse be careful not to get mad at each other when it really is the autism that has you so upset and angry." And it encourages parents to view autism as a horrible disease from which their child can get better. Other issues with the 100 Day Kit is that it: spreads the myth that autism is on the rise and more prevalent in boys, encourages parents to grieve over their autistic children, encourages parents to be angry over their child's autism, equates autism to cancer, discourages autism acceptance, tells allistic children that its okay to be sad to have an autstic sibling, among many other issues. The 100 Day Kit is so bad that recently ASAN (Autism Self Advocacy Network) had to cut ties with Sesame Street after Sesame Street acknowledged that the program was bad but refused to cut ties with it.

Autism Speaks also supports some pretty awful things. One of which being the Judge Rottenberg Center, a horrible institution that abuses autistic people with electirc shocks. And they have also been known to support the anti-vaxxer movement.

Finally they have hardly any autistic people on their board, which violates one of the primary tenants of disability activism "Nothing about us, without us". Compare that to other autism organizations such as ASAN and the difference is really noticeable. Also, only a tiny 1.6% of their budget goes towards helping actual autistic people.

Please do not donate to an organization that harms autistic people this April! If you wish to support autistic people this Autism Acceptance Month, you could instead donate to groups run by actual autistic people such as ASAN (Autistic Self Advocacy Network) or AWN (Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network) or even donate to a local group. But most importantly, please remember to listen to what actual autistic people have to say this April!

Sources: https://medium.com/@KirstenSchultz/a-roundup-of-posts-against-autism-speaks-5dbf7f8cfcc6

https://www.google.com/amp/s/intheloopaboutneurodiversity.wordpress.com/2019/09/13/the-ableist-history-of-autism-speaks/amp/

https://intheloopaboutneurodiversity.wordpress.com/2019/08/12/a-look-at-autism-speaks-100-day-kit/

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Infodump about songs you think are stimmy!

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Autism Speaks turned their puzzle piece logo rainbow colored to appropriate the neurodiversity movement, but a new look doesn’t erase the disgusting things it did and still does. They spend money making that instead of on helping autistic people access services, so it’s safe to say we, autistic people, are still not being listened to.

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Comfort movie time :)

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autistic people will see a meme and be like ‘oh this will be the only thing I say for the next five hours’ and that’s on echolalia baby

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I'm exhausted (emotionally and physically) so I'm listening to Green Day and stimming with my Littlest Pets

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H e c a m e

I've got a Littlest Pet that might come today (I checked on the delivery and it's like 15 minutes away from where I live) and I'm very excited about it because I've been wanting this one for a while!!! It's the Chinese New Year dragon lps and I've wanted it ever since I saw it used in a video once dkdkorkkdkdodkdk

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All of them except for one came today!!!!!!

I've got a Littlest Pet that might come today (I checked on the delivery and it's like 15 minutes away from where I live) and I'm very excited about it because I've been wanting this one for a while!!! It's the Chinese New Year dragon lps and I've wanted it ever since I saw it used in a video once dkdkorkkdkdodkdk

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I've got a Littlest Pet that might come today (I checked on the delivery and it's like 15 minutes away from where I live) and I'm very excited about it because I've been wanting this one for a while!!! It's the Chinese New Year dragon lps and I've wanted it ever since I saw it used in a video once dkdkorkkdkdodkdk

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I just remembered I'm getting some late Christmas money and I'm buying some Littlest Pets with it so now I'm feeling a little bit better!!

I'm really sad. I can't take my Crow Funko Pop out with me anymore because his arm keeps falling off

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I'm really sad. I can't take my Crow Funko Pop out with me anymore because his arm keeps falling off

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Okay actually I’m sort of interested, actuallyADHD and actuallyAustistic, reblog this and tag the game you hyperfixate on and play more than anyone else you know. For me it’s Age of Empires II: HD Edition

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Idk if it's just me, but I really feel like I form a close bond (if that's the right word) to my comfort items and treat them like they're living. Like today my Crow Funko Pop's arm fell off and I was luckily able to fix it, but I was still super worried and kept going into the kitchen to check on him, and then all day, I've been scared to put him in my pocket and I've been holding him really close to me

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They're in lesbians :)

Okay so this has little to do with the picture but lps have become a really big special interest of mine (they've actually been a special interest to me since I was 2 years old w o w) so I figured I'd make this my first post on this blog!!

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Introduction

Hello!! I'm Riley, but you can call me Kitsune. I am a 16 year old nonbinary (cool with any pronouns) asexual lesbian and I have autism and selective mutism. This blog was originally going to be a Littlest Pet Shop blog but I decided to make it an autism blog instead :)

I plan on posting headcanons and other stuff on here so yeah :)

My current special interests are Eddsworld and Littlest Pets!! My current hyperfixations are Danganronpa, Warrior Cats and The Muppets!!

Also since this is a side blog I'll be following people from my main, so my main is @kitsunethefreakingfox

DO NOT INTERACT IF YOU ARE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING

🌺 LGBTQ+phobic

🌺 TERF/anything related

🌺 Ableist

🌺 Racist

🌺 Participate in cringe culture (yucky >:()

🌺 Pedophile

🌺 Generally hateful/mean person

🌺 Exclusively NSFW

That's all I have for now lol