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I decided to create something that I wish I had when I first got diagnosed with autism - so here’s my comic for ASDComicTakeover! You can find out more about the project here!

Image Description: A bingo card with ABLEIST BINGO at the top (courtesy of @chronicallyisajennie​  

Under the B:

“Have you tried Yoga?”

“Everyone can go vegan!”

Assigns neurotypical motivations to a neuroatypical person’s behaviors

“I think you mean person with Autism”

“People have it worse”

Under the I: 

Compares acute illness to chronic illness

“You take too many medicines!”

“You don’t want equality, you want special treatment!”

Plays Disability police

Uses disability, mental illness, etc, as a metaphor

Under the N:

“Big Pharma”

“Language changes!“ "You’re policing my word choice!”

Free Space

“Neurotypical? Non-Disabled? Don’t you mean normal?”

Accusations of faking

Under the G:

“You’re derailing”

“You don’t look sick/Disabled!”

Uses ableist slurs

“I wish I didn’t have to work”

“I don’t see disability”

Under the O:

“Everyone feels that way sometimes”

Special needs/ differently abled/ handicapable

“You’re using your disability/mental illness as an excuse”

“Exercise!”

I love you all hearies but sometimes it’s harder to get your attention compared to deafies haha. We deafies are used to having to pay more attention to our peripheral vision so we can catch someone trying to get our attention or something zooming by. Several hearies aren’t used to being relied on peripheral vision because they are more used to relying on hearing sounds to be more aware of their surroundings.

And YES there is a science behind this! There was actually a research done on that by VL2 at Gallaudet University. You can read it here: bit.ly/1IahcoS

VL2 or Visual Language and Visual Learning is a very cool NSF funded Science of Learning Center at Gallaudet Univ. where they focus on researches relating to vision. We deafies rely heavily on vision and yes our brains are wired a bit differently because of that. Fascinating stuff! You can check it out at vl2.gallaudet.edu.(Gallaudet University is the only university that has majority of students who are deaf, has full faculty that signs. I went there!)

Image description can be found on my facebook page- click here!