Not to excuse the lack acceptance but understanding it’s source is how we can defeat it.
To be clear, I hope you mean defeating the lack of widespread understanding and care for autistics, not “defeating autism”, whatever that would entail. I like the way my brain works, and I hope you like yours. The problem is other people being assholes to us.
Oh! Defeating ignorance for sure. Sorry I should have been more clear about that.
My autism is one of the few things I don’t seem to hate about myself. And it’s also a part of many of those I love and respect. I whouldnt change them for anything.
I just dont like to think of others as being assholes intentionally. I like the idea of Hanlons razor.
Growing up in the early 90s I had thought autism was a form of down syndrome and i was tossing around the R word without a care. But without the internet, and living out in a tiny village, how whould I have learned better? The teachers didn’t know, and neither did my parents. It was like autism hadnt been discovered yet.
even if I could tell my past self that he was autistic, he’d have no idea what that means or have any resources to learn about it. I think much of the older generations are still in that state. They’ve never had to learn what autism is so whatever misinformation they have about it is what they are going with.
We’d need to have everyone unlearn and relearn what they know, and that’s a massive challenge.
To be clear, I hope you mean defeating the lack of widespread understanding and care for autistics, not “defeating autism”, whatever that would entail. I like the way my brain works, and I hope you like yours. The problem is other people being assholes to us.
Oh! Defeating ignorance for sure. Sorry I should have been more clear about that.
My autism is one of the few things I don’t seem to hate about myself. And it’s also a part of many of those I love and respect. I whouldnt change them for anything.
I just dont like to think of others as being assholes intentionally. I like the idea of Hanlons razor.
Growing up in the early 90s I had thought autism was a form of down syndrome and i was tossing around the R word without a care. But without the internet, and living out in a tiny village, how whould I have learned better? The teachers didn’t know, and neither did my parents. It was like autism hadnt been discovered yet.
even if I could tell my past self that he was autistic, he’d have no idea what that means or have any resources to learn about it. I think much of the older generations are still in that state. They’ve never had to learn what autism is so whatever misinformation they have about it is what they are going with.
We’d need to have everyone unlearn and relearn what they know, and that’s a massive challenge.