#autism speaks

[poolboyatthegiovannimansion]

Reject Autism Speaks, embrace ultra-realistic and occasionally unintentionally autism-coded characters

#autism #asd #autism spectrum disorder #autism speaks #autism special interest #autism spectrum condition #chainsaw man #chainsawman #asa mitaka #mitaka asa #big boss #metal gear #mgs #metal gear solid #vergil #vergil sparda #dmc vergil #dmc #devil may cry #kazuma kiryu #kiryu kazuma #yakuza #ryu ga gotoku #rgg #charlie kelly #charlie day #its always sunny in philadelphia #always sunny #la creatura #yippee

[autism-affirmations]

#autism #autistic #autism memes #actually autistic #affirmations #autism affirmation #audhd #asd #autism speaks sucks #autism speaks #autism acceptance month #tw autism speaks

[trash-and-trash-accessories]

"Autism mom" organizations treating autism like a horrific disease in the 90s did so much harm to autistic people. Still today people are torturing autistic children in an attempt to exorcise the autism from their bodies to get back their healthy normal child. People aren't giving their kids necessary vaccines out of fear they might catch this horrific illness. All because these organizations painted autism as a horrific illness stealing healthy children from their loving parents instead of just like, people with slightly different brains that can be accommodated.

#autism #autism mom #autistic #autism things #autism speaks #that's probably the worst one because of their reach #actually autistic #neurodivergent #audhd #neurodiversity

[hello-nichya-here]

Did Sia insult topic of autism somehow?

Oh honey, it's sooooooooo much worse than that.

Sia wanted to make a movie about an autistic girl that manages to connect to people/feel safe and confident through music. So far, nothing outrageous, just a simple concept that would obviously put Sia's music front and center while doing something nice and educating people on autism.

There was controversy about her not casting an autistic actress as it would have been nice representation, but she could have totally gotten away with that since, come on, hollywood hasn't even figured out Rain Man isn't exactly true to life, they're not ready to have an autistic person playing an autistic character. Baby steps.

The real problem started when Sia started promoting the "charity/support group" that was helping "educate" her on the topic to make the movie. The "charity" in question was Autism Speaks - which is absolutely HATED by the autistic community for things like:

1 - Spreading the myth that autism is a mental illness that one can develop/catch like the freaking flue and potentially be cured of, instead of a neurotype, aka something starts in the woomb and cannot be "cured" because to do that you'd need to replace someone's entire nervous system, which is impossible.

2 - Using that myth to get outrageous amounts of money from people so they "search for a cure" - that doesn't exist and will never exist because curing autism is biologically impossible, AND despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of autistic people don't even want to be "cured" (plus, since said "cure" would essentially mean giving the person a new brain, it leads to the question of "Would I even be the same person, or would that just kill and replace me?")

3 - Using the myth of "We don't know what causes autism" (we do, it's genetic) to, of course, get MORE money from people so they can "do research to find the missing puzzle piece" (if you ever see autistic people complaining about a puzzle piece being used to represent the condition, that's why, it was started by Autism Speak's massive disinformation campains).

4 - Falsely "confirming" things like soy milk cause autism with one of the world's most ridiculous "research", losing only to "vaccines totally make kids autistic, buy MY vaccine instead, guys, I am totally not an unbelievably biased person, it's ALL the other doctors/scientists lying to you. GIVE ME MONEY!"

5 - Pushing the narrative of "autism is inherently a tragedy" to distract from the fact that all the money they waste on stupid shit could be used to help autistic people and their families. Instead, they focus on creating more and more panic, making parents in particular despair even more - to the point that one of their "awareness videos" includes a mother talking about how she wants to murder her autistic daughter and then kill herself... while sitting right next to said daughter.

6 - Promoting ABA "therapy" - which was created by the same guy responsible for the attrocity that is gay conversion "therapy." Both have led to unbelievably high rates of confirmed PTSD and suicidal ideation in patients (victims), and ABA in particular has been compared to literal dog training. Very fitting since it was created by a guy who famously did not believe autistic people truly counted as thinking, feeling human beings, and said as much several times. Despite that, it is still praised by some utter bastards because "it makes the patients act less autistic when they're not crying in the corner or trying to jump out a window"

So yeah, working with these guys is a genuinely horrible thing to do since they're basically a scam/hate group pretending to be a charity - and people were STILL willing to give Sia the benefit of the doubt, since Autism Speak uses all their resources to make sure they're the first thing people see when looking up how to help autistic people.

Lots of Sia's fans, both autistic and allistic, warned her repeatedly, politely, that she needed to supporting them IMMEDIATELY as their goal was the exact opposite of the one she claimed to have - aka raise awareness through an accurate portrail of autism. People were even kind enough to name organizations like ASAN as replacements to help her fix any damage done to the project.

And instead of being a decent human being, Sia decided to cry on twitter about how the mean retar-I mean, autistics were bullying her even when she was so kindly using them for her vanity project.

Because yes, that's how the movie turned out. An unwatcheable piece of garbage, with the autistic "character" being so fucking bad even the people who actively use "autistic" as insulted being offended on our behalf - and of course, she was used just a prop to show how awesome Sia's character was.

Seriously, it was so bad the actress playing the autistic girl was sobbing in between scenes because she knew how it was horrible and she didn't want to insult anyone, but Sia is literally her godmother and helped her career by putting her in nearly all her music videos so she felt obligated to go along with it.

So yeah, fuck Sia and fuck Autism Speaks.

#asks #sia #ableism #autism speaks #actually autistic #aba therapy

[flirts-with-dragons]

The two types of autism organizations:

- "aspie supremacy 💕🤪 level 2s and 3s don't exist because we said so"

- "autism is an infectious disease. We are developing the autism vaccine. Give us your money"

#ableism #tw ableism #tw aspie supremacy #(i dont want to attract aspies so im not putting it without the tw) #autism speaks #autism organizations #ableist organizations #hate groups #autism #autistic #actually autism #actually autistic

[lightros]

“You can’t blame celebrities for donating to Autism Speaks, it’s not common knowledge that they’re hateful.”

I timed it. It takes 15 seconds to type their name into google, pull up their wikipedia page, scroll down to their Views as an organization, and see the first listed thing is they have historically viewed autism as a disease.

15. Seconds.

#actually autistic #ableism #autism speaks

[theconcealedweapon]

"But what if someone fakes being autistic in order to talk over autistic people?"

They'd have no motive to do that. Autism Speaks does a phenomenal job of talking over autistic people, and they don't pretend to be autistic themselves. Non-autistic people who wish to talk over autistic people already have an outlet for that. They'd gain nothing by pretending to be part of the group they're abusing.

#autism #actuallyautistic #self diagnosis #autism speaks #ableism

[thetownwecallhome]

Call Out Post

((OOC: Sorry tender lumplings for the impromptu callout. I genuinely don't like doing this at all but it's this person's fault for talking to me. Well @everythingjackskellington, here's your feature. Also delete your blog.

PLEASE don't buy from @everythingjackskellington. They are THEFT, an AI junkie and a SCAMMER.

They just recently dropped a promo ask in my box and I immediately recognized their art as being both AI and stolen in their collection on ViralStyle.

The moment I saw the "Ragdoll Coffee" insignia I recognized it as being that of Ellador's art from Redbubble. Buy her actual design here.

Given that I am A) a redbubble artist myself, and we have to sift through LOTS of art theft, including our own art being stolen, and B) have a sister who's been ripped off herself, I will not tolerate this. You are exploiting other artists and TNBC fans who don't know any better.

Please, everyone reading, do NOT buy TNBC fan merch that does not clearly have the artist's name attached. We get our work stolen enough for AI. Also I don't care if the above artwork you linked me with isn't AI. You stole it. You didn't make it.

Thief.

Do not buy this. If you have some time to kill while you're on vacay and/or wrapping xmas presents, see Hbomberguy's latest video on creator theft and plagiarism. It is worth you time and is a great example as to why I have no tolerance for this kind of thing.

The only silver lining, to spare you all from looking yourself and giving them anymore traction, was laughing at some of the clearly unthought out automated stuff they slapped Jack and Sally on. It'd be funny if you actually had any thought behind it, but again I know you didn't:

To the antiJallys/Sally-going-her-own-way-crowd, these would be funny if they weren't baseless generative crap. In fact, make your OWN gay sally designs outta this. I believe in you~

Well, you got the Blink182 lyrics right but wow you missed out on the one opportunity to spam Jack's face on something and needlessly swear. Good one, but I don't know why the Monster High logo is there.

Also yes this person swears like a sailor and does just what I said. If you want Jack on a bunch of stuff that has nothing do with him...you should still flag this store and not buy from them. But here they are, regardless.

Oh, and nice Autism Speaks propaganda there.

#ooc #ooc post #call out post #scam alert #art theft #ai art theft #swearing #tw swearing #autism speaks

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

I hope all my followers know, by now, that Autism Speaks is a eugenics organization.

(I'm not censoring the organization's name, in hopes that this post will reach beyond the Disability Rights community).

Now that it's April, you are going to see a lot of fundraising campaigns for A.S.. If you really want to make life better for autistic people, I suggest donating to the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, instead:

#Autism speaks #eugenics #It's April again #ASAN

[kitakeo]

new fave review

#kitakeo l'etranger #l'etranger #i want to put a like #autism neg tag on this #but does that exist #idk #this will do: #autism speaks

[crewtawn]

Now that Matpat is retiring I can happily say that I hated him. He held transphobic views, consistantly misgendered cannonically trans characters, donated to anti-autistic charities, and villanized/stygmatized mental illnesses.

You were all too busy sucking his dick to realize it, but he doubled down on the things he said, never apologized for half of the abhorent things he said, and his fans consistantly harrassed people who disagreed with his theories or called him out.

Anyway, MATPAT RETIRING! SO LONG BOZO!

MOST OF THIS SHIT ISNT EVEN OUT OF CONTEXT IN THESE VIDEOS; like op says in the description, probably because people were harrassing them. AND IN CONTEXT ITS STILL BAD.

BUT ITS OK, RIGHT? ITS OK IF UTS JUST A THEORY! RIGHT GUYS!?!?! ITS JUST A GAME THEORY!!!!

#matpat #transphobia #ableism #autism speaks #fnaf #tf2 #nintendo #game theory #mad dicksucking #boot licker #the cishets are at it again #trigger warning #tw transphobes #tw transphobia #tw transandrophobia #tw ableism #tw ableist language

[mischiefmanifold]

"waaah autism speaks sucks they support eugenics!"

autism speaks has an adult autism diagnosis guide, written by autistic adults for autistic adults (LINK)

autism speaks has a program to help autistic adults find and keep jobs (LINK)

autism speaks has housing and residential support for autistic adults and autistic teenagers who are moving away from home (LINK)

autism speaks has an autism response team (ART) to provide referrals and support for autistic people and the autism community (LINK)

autistic people on the board of directors include Stephen Shore, who was nonverbal as a child; most other members are parents of autistic people or professionals who study autism (LINK)

autism speaks has a blog where actually autistic people share their experiences and advocacy (LINK)

autism speaks works closely with autistic people such as Eileen Lamb in advocacy, awareness, and support for autistic people and families

autism speaks' FAQ explains several misconceptions that many autistic people still believe about the organization, such as the video "I am autism," which was taken down soon after its publishing because of backlash from the community; autism speaks has expressed great regret in the creation and publishing of that video (LINK)

autism speaks has not had the goal to cure autism since the early 2010s, and the desire to cure autism was removed from their mission statement in 2016 (found in the above link to the FAQ)

#y'all better read the entire fucking post and visit all the links before commenting #because I will know if you didn't it's so obvious #autism #autism speaks #autism spectrum disorder #autistic community #actually autistic

[semiverbal-culture-is]

Autism doesn't need to speak

Autism Speaks claim to speak for autistic people who can't. Nonverbal people, semivetbal people, etc.

They do not speak for us because there's no need to. We no need to speak to be treated like human.

Normally I'd wrote this post later when i can type better, but i need no to. If you can understand that all matter. Trying to avoid spelling errors with spell check.

We are people. We are not less or alien or not matter. We are human.

Should we be treated as such and should be treated our age.

Shouldn't need this post. Should be obvious already. We don't need to speak.

Autism acceptance means we all need to be accept like we are. Even people who can't advocate for themself. Even people who can't speak.

We way too tired of same fight.

#autism #autistic #actually autistic #autism acceptence month #autism acceptance #autism speaks #semiverbal #nonverbal #not semiverbal culture

[trash-and-trash-accessories]

No YOU can't cure Autism. I've personally sucked the autism out of hundreds of people and absorbed it all into myself. I've become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.

#autism #autistic #autism creature #autism cure #autistic adult #hmu if you want the autism sucked from your body #I've become more autistic than you could possibly imagine #autism speaks #and it says suck on each other's autism

[autistic-people-are-awesome]

#auti #actullyautistic #autistic problems #actually autistic #autistic #autism #asd #light it up blue #autism speaks #autism awareness #autism spectrum disorder #autism acceptance month #actuallyautistic #autism spectrum #don't light it up blue

[awetistic-things]

just a reminder that to support autism speaks is to oppose autistic people

#they quite literally promote eugenics #like real bad #autism #autistic #actually autistic #asd #autism spectrum disorder #on the spectrum #autism speaks #AUTISM SPEAKS CAN SUCK MY NEURODIVERGENT DICK - yung butt piss