Once asked a girl what the orange ribbon on her jacket signified. She said domestic violence. I asked for or against? Sometimes I should just not be allowed to speak.
The ‘against’ ribbon is orange. The ‘For’ ribbon is black and blue.
I saw a black and blue ribbon once. Everyone piled on me shouting that it is actually white and gold.
I heard Zanny.
That’s not so bad. If you want to filter out people who don’t share your dark sense of humour, it could work
I mean Autism Speaks is a pretty shit org, I really do wish they’d stop speaking at all
Ooh, I thought that was the joke! He meant that autistic people should stop speaking altogether?
We should though
AFAIK Autism Speaks fucking sucks. They should STFU!
Not sure what anon was actually going for. Self-identification as autistic seems pretty common on 4chan, is he tired of speaking? Trying to make a point about Autism Speaks? Just being ableist?
He’s being self-deprecating for blurting out the first edgy nonsense that comes to mind, a tendency which he attributes (with good reason) to spending too much time on /b/. He may have intended his comment to be targeted at autism speaks instead of people wuth autism but to innocent bystanders that’s not obvious and he’s aware.
Based on my experience, a long time ago, no. Even if they self-diagnose as autistic, they also say hateful things about them, and anyone else for that matter.
What’s wrong with them? Because I have no idea about them whatsoever.
They have a very outdated, paternalistic, rightwing view of autism. They mostly view it as a disease on the level of cancer that needs to be cured, versus the “neurodiversity” view that most autistic autism activists have, and they have almost no (openly) autistic people in leadership positions (in stark contrast to many other autism advocacy groups). Also held on to the “vaccines cause autism” myth for a long time.
they have almost no (openly) autistic people in leadership positions
Genuine question: can an autistic person be a leader?
My exposure to autistic people has been very limited.My exposure to autistic people has been very limited.
Autism is a much larger spectrum than you might have been led to believe from popular media depiction and social stigma, and you probably have met a few people in your life who had some degree of autism but you thought “they seem normal?”
I do agree that it doesn’t necessarily come naturally to autists, but it seems to work fine for all the autist-led autism advocacy groups. Lots of autists have substantial skill in social masking, anyway - doing it around the clock is damaging to them, but it’s not like non-autistic leaders are always their fully authentic self in public, either. A good advocacy group enables, where possible, the participation of people who are directly affected.
As a prominent example for leaders of activist groups with autism, consider Greta Thunberg.
Greta is pretty controversial, but thank you very much for the well elaborated answer!
Lots of people are controversial and most of them aren’t openly autistic … she certainly inspired and mobilized people.
Isn’t autism speaks the one that wants to ““cure”” autism?
👏 bingo I’d actually rather them not speak at all as well
This greentext is fake and gay! (happy pride month btw)
What really happened is that Anon misinterpreted the cashier’s facial expression because they are autistic. Upon hearing Anon‘s quirky statement, she actually replied:
“I’m deeply sorry for not directly recognizing you as the CEO of Autism®, would you like to take a look at our selection of sandbox factory building and farming simulators? We also might still have a few copies of uhhh…Sonic??”
Seriously though, fuck autismspeaks
I’m kinda out of the loop, what did they do?
Eugenics.
They’re a terrible organization that talks about autism as if it’s a whole bunch of stuff it isn’t
Because Elon Musk? I get it.
Self-aware enough to realize he’s getting checked out, 8/10… Imma press X to doubt.
I think he means she’s processing his items at the cash register
