We are neurodiverse, you are neurotypical … #actuallyautistic Fresno Autistics spoke with Lilia Luciano a couple of years ago. Included in the video here are my children and Jennifer Marie Davis … plus a few others. My children matter. All of my children. All of my Autistic children and non-autistic children. So why does Autism Speaks board member bash children […]
A note: Watched this documentary “Far from the Tree.” There is a family who are NT parents of an Autistic child featured. Broke my heart to hear their pain and then their moment of realization that there’s a real person in there … I just cried. I always understood my non-verbal children far […]
No, @Autism Speaks: You Don’t Speak for US! This is a message from the autistic community and our allies to Autism Speaks. Autism Speaks, you have tried to silence us, block us, sue us, ignore us, gaslight us, and ridicule us. You have tried to discredit and exclude #ActuallyAutistic people and you continue to pathologize autism and […]
Led by 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, young and old people around the world rallied to make a bold statement about the future of humanity. After years of equivocation on climate issues by politicians … Source: Greta Thunberg leads children and adults from 150 countries into Historic Global Climate Strike – The Yucatan Times
“We cannot make ‘deals’ with physics,” the Swedish teen activist said. Source: No One Seemed To Notice Greta Thunberg’s Critique Of The Green New Deal
How do we improve the lives of autistic people? What can allies learn from this? Author’s Note: I am not experiencing the thoughts, just rather have in the past and am writing about why it’s important to pay attention to autistic burnout. If I were to ask you to stop being who you were for […]
