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Yesterday when I was looking up resources for my friend who believes she& #39;s #actuallyautistic herself, the search-engine results were sobering: Autism Speaks. The WHO. Various and sundry medical schools. Various and sundry orgs that promote and/or administer ABA.
And I thought...
And I thought...
....this is a problem. This is a BIG problem. Because when people, whether #autistic themselves or parents of autistic children, want to search for information about #autism, nine chances out of ten, they& #39;ll just Google it. And these are the results that are going to come up.
And they& #39;re going to think to themselves, "huh, okay, well, this is the World Health Organization, the foremost authority on medical conditions, so they MUST know what they& #39;re talking about. And Autism Speaks has all the top results, so they MUST have all the answers I need."
Um....how about....NO.
How about....NOT IN A HUNDRED TRILLION YEARS.
Parents, teachers, self-diagnosed auties, individuals on the suspectrum: Just because these are the top search results DOES NOT mean that you need look no further.
As a matter of fact, the WHO and A$....
How about....NOT IN A HUNDRED TRILLION YEARS.
Parents, teachers, self-diagnosed auties, individuals on the suspectrum: Just because these are the top search results DOES NOT mean that you need look no further.
As a matter of fact, the WHO and A$....
....have repeatedly demonstrated that they are the unequivocal WORST #autism resources you can possibly find in a Google search or a real-life venue. Why? Because the WHO, A$, the medical schools, and especially the ABA schools are not even led by #autistic people. They& #39;re led...
....by neurotypicals who think they& #39;ve got #autism all figured out.
If you want to be aware of one thing about autism during this #AutismAwarenessMonth, be aware of this: When it comes to learning about autism, non- #autistic organisations like these are NOT the place to go.
If you want to be aware of one thing about autism during this #AutismAwarenessMonth, be aware of this: When it comes to learning about autism, non- #autistic organisations like these are NOT the place to go.
You& #39;ve got to learn about #autism from real experts: the people who have lived experience, who know firsthand what being #autistic is like, who have just barely survived day after day trying to make sense of a world that can& #39;t be arsed to listen to, let alone understand them.
You are reading correctly, ladies, gentlemen and gender-non-conformists:
If you want to learn about #autism, you have to turn to #ACTUALLYAUTISTIC PEOPLE.
Not Autism Speaks.
Not the World Health Organization.
Definitely not the Judge Rotenberg Center and other torture camps.
If you want to learn about #autism, you have to turn to #ACTUALLYAUTISTIC PEOPLE.
Not Autism Speaks.
Not the World Health Organization.
Definitely not the Judge Rotenberg Center and other torture camps.
Take a few extra minutes to go further down the search-engine results till you& #39;ve separated the wheat from the chaff, actually read what #AllAutistics have to say for themselves. You& #39;ll be the better for having found true, accurate information about #autism from reliable sources.
