ifshehadwings:

butterflyinthewell:

uncannylamby:

so about april

so apparently april is ‘autism awareness month’ and a ton of well-meaning people are gonna be ‘lighting it up blue’. most of them have good intentions but please oh my GOD DON’T. DO NOT.

the whole ‘light it up blue’ thing was started by a ‘charity’ called autism $peaks, who basically treat autistic people as sub-human, have rallied with racist hate groups, and believe autistic people are tragedies who need to be cured. members of autism $peaks have literally spoken about killing their autistic kids while the kids were in earshot, and they support electroshock and food/sleep deprivation therapy to ‘cure’ people of their autism.

a lot of autistic people have started up a thing called autism acceptance month instead, and encourage people to light it up RED instead. so if you want to show support, support that instead. i’m not autistic myself but autism $peaks is honestly trash and needs to b u r n.

thank you!!

I’m autistic and I approve of this message.

Please consider supporting the Autism Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) instead! It’s, well, exactly what it sounds like. An organization run by autistic people to advocate for the needs and concerns of autistic people. 

They have a bunch of resources for education, they work on public policy initiatives, and lots of other projects. 

Here is their website for Autism Acceptance Month. 

Anyway, I’m not autistic, but ASAN is a great place to find out more about autism from actually autistic folks and a great organization to support if you want to help autistic people and not, yk, a pretty gross organization that doesn’t at all have their best interests at heart.