#ColorTheSpectrum

The Autisticats - #StopTheShock

I’m up thinking about #ColorTheSpectrum (the media event with non-autistic celebrities, scheduled for April 30th, to raise money for an organization called Next For Autism that’s funding research to “prevent”

AutisticSciencePerson

Let me show you how many types of consent ABA therapists break.#SayNoToABA #ColorTheSpectrumFirst:"Consent: Both people want to share touch."Nope. ABA therapists do "hand-over-hand" to make autistic kids complete tasks t

TW: ableism, eugenics.We are beyond disappointed to hear about @MarkRober's #ColorTheSpectrum fundraiser. A thread. If you’re not autistic, something you should know is that heaps of money that is fundraised

With the #ColorTheSpectrum discussion going on, I keep seeing the term “autism industry” get thrown around, and I want to explain what it means, because I think understanding the autism

Lillian Carrier

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In light of everything going on with #ColorTheSpectrum I would like to take a moment to talk about why #AdvancedBehaviorAnalysis is abuse.When supporting the #AutisticCommunity this should be the second

Erika Heidewald, Proud Autistic Bitch

what does @NEXTforAUTISM really stand for? this essay by one of their board members who’s also part of producing #ColorTheSpectrum about how she abused and abandoned her autistic son for

Erika Heidewald, Proud Autistic Bitch

In the first couple days of Mark Rober posting #ColorTheSpectrum they raised over $900,000 & since then they only raised $30,000. It is definitely from the backlash and the fact

an overwhelming surplus of diggity

This only happened bc we pushed so hard. And even with all of that pushing, the ball didnt really get rolling until an autistic person who happened to personally know

In light of #FundTheSpectrum trending (sort of), I am surprised that I've not yet seen a thread specifically for Autistic BIPOC to post their payment links-- especially given all the

The future is not a given unless we tackle #climateChange. Unfortunately, due to the structure of our society, I believe that in order to best that, we need to enable

Sorry long thread incoming.I'm sure a lot of people have seen this video by @MarkRober. On the surface, he seems to have good intentions.Unfortunately the video is filled with so