Happy World Autism Awareness/Acceptance Day, and the start of Autism Awareness/Acceptance Month! Remember that Autism Speaks is a hate group, and you can show your support for actual autistic people by wearing #RedInstead!

As today is #AutismAwarenessDay, please be very aware of me.

Every day at work, I wear this - not only for #AutismAwarenessDay

Don’t play the fool this April. Here are some things to remember this Autism Acceptance Month:

Avoid the symbols created by Autism Speaks, including the colour blue and the puzzled pieces. Go Red Instead. In the spirit of Nothing About Us Without Us, look to Autistic people for information. However, do not demand their labour for free. Take what is offered. #autismacceptanceday #autismawarenessday

It's #AutismAcceptanceDay today and #AutismAcceptanceMonth
As an #ActuallyAutistic person i personally prefer these terms rather than #AutismAwarenessMonth and #AutismAwarenessDay
Why,because Acceptance and Understanding is more important than just Awareness
#BanABA

It's World Autism Awareness Day!

There’s nothing wrong with autistic people, there’s nothing wrong with trans people and there’s nothing wrong with autistic trans people.

Why are people autistic? It doesn’t really matter why. Why are people trans? It doesn’t really matter why. Why are so many trans people autistic? Maybe we should be asking why so few allistic people are trans.

The great irony, of course, of #AutismAwarenessDay / #AutismAwarenessMonth / #AutismAcceptanceWeek is that the voices of #ActuallyAutistic people are being drowned out by the very people who are oppressing us, silencing us, abusing us, commodifying our very bodies.

@actuallyautistic

Important to remind everyone on #AutismAwarenessDay that labels such as high/low functioning, support needs, speaking, masking, etc are not helpful. These things are not static. Treating them as if they are is ableist.

Every #ActuallyAutistic person can experience variations in support needs, functioning, masking, speaking, and any other label which outsiders may see as permanent. What & how one is today isn't necessarily what one will be tomorrow. Life changes us. None of that is permanent.

Just because today I am verbal and appear to be "high functioning" to you doesn't mean that I will be so next week, or even a minute from now. While you may see me as a "success" and "well adjusted" now, next month I may be in an institution, catatonic and non-verbal.

Perhaps today I am "living unmasked" but tomorrow that can be different, depending on MANY THINGS. That being said, I may not be. We are all different. Each #autistic person has their own brain and their own life. NOTHING IS PERMANENT. Lose the labels.

But to that end, this is MY take. I DO NOT speak for all autistic people, just like no one autistic person speaks for another. Our experiences are different AND shared. Respect that & if you want to learn ONE thing during #AutismAcceptanceWeek it's that we are all unique.

@actuallyautistic

This #AutismAwarenessDay why not watch & share some of the over 7 hours worth of #ActuallyAutistc content I lovingly made for you? Video essays all designed to depathologize difference & breed acceptance & empathy. Here's a playlist of all of them.
All About Autism: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_CtIp5TCxpz5Hsdm70RLY8rzrc1pG2PV