babe-beyond-the-binary:

Autistic people are not:

• In need of a cure
• r*tarded/dumb/stupid
• All children
• All male or AMAB
• All nonverbal
• Vaccine-Injured
• Brain damaged
• Your “missing” normal child
• Behaving poorly or being “defiant” simply by stimming or being themselves
• Diseased or sick
• In need of ABA therapy
• Unable to have a voice and speak for themeslves
• Cold, callous, unempathetic robots/monsters
• Like Sheldon Cooper
• What Autism $peaks and TACA tells you they are!

Autistic people are:

• Awesome, creative, interesting people
• Diverse
• Allowed to stim and act autistic in public without being judged
• Good enough as they are
• Able to have a voice and speak out against their oppression, whether that be with actual speech or sign language or AAC or the Internet
• Able to be adults
• Simply people with a different structured brain, that’s it
• Human beings with thoughts and feelings
• Living breating people who can SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES
• Hella cute
• Super brave for surviving in such an ableist world

Autistic People Don’t:

• Want your pity
• Need a cure
• Need ABA therapy
• Have to speak in order to be considered valid
• Deserve the ableist way they are treated
• Like Autism $peaks or TACA
• Want to be all treated like children
• Want to be invalidated and told they’re “not autistic enough”
• Want to be called or treated like burdens by their own families
• Need “rescuing” from their own neurotype

Autistic people do:

• Need acceptance, not awareness
• Want ableism to be recognised in society as a legitimate method of oppression
• Need support and accessibility
• Want to be respected and treated like people
• Want to be heard

Autistic people are not silent monsters.

Listen to us.

edit: i’ve had some angry comments saying how they’re an autistic person who DOES want a cure. that’s valid and i’m sorry life put you in such an unaccepting situation where you want a cure. the thing is, if a cure was made, autistics would start being forced to take it.

“oh you want that job? get yourself cured!”

“non cured autistics aren’t allowed to come to this school”

“autism is a pre-existing condition so we won’t give you any accessibility/benefits. you can just get yourself cured”.

also Autism Mommies will start giving it to children with autism without their consent.