i use kung fu to control the situation

When the subject of autism is being discussed in non-autistic spaces, and an autistic person contributes and says they are autistic, and other people act like that means absolutely nothing. So many times I’ve seen people be like, “Since you’re able to type, you’re high functioning and this isn’t about you”. 

But anyone else who contributes to the conversation is always like, “I have a kid with autism” or “I work with kids with autism” like that gives them authority and ownership over autism. 

I am just so confused as to why autistic people are constantly told they don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to autism, yet if a neurotypcal person just *knows* an autistic person, they’re allowed to contribute whatever the heck they want.

My friend Klaus is a 17 year old mentally ill intersex trans person who needs help escaping his living situation.  He currently resides across the country from me with his physically and emotionally abusive legal guardian  Initially my partner and I were going to raise the money ourselves by working and doing commissions, but due to an incident that happened earlier today, Klaus feels it is urgent to leave as soon as possible.

He wants to raise $1500 so he can fly out to oregon and move in with with my partner and I, we have most of the money saved up but we need this 1.5k to pay for his plane ticket, deposit on an apartment, and first month of rent.  I would appreciate it if you could reblog this post, even if you were to just delete it later, any amount exposure would be tremendous help. Klaus is also taking commissions and will complete them once he has a safe place to stay 

Indonesian mechanic welds with a “robotic” arm he built for himself after he became partially paralyzed.