Oocly; Thank God Tandem, I was about to have to say a thing because I thought that was a pro autism speaks post. God bless you for rebloggin that though because as a mental health worker that fucking organization makes me LIvID. Kudos.
No, absolutely not. Hell no. Fuck autism speaks.
My cousin was diagnosed with autism and one of my best friends is autistic, and one of my other good friends suspects they may be autistic too. I have absolutely no room for a garbage organization that demonizes good, good people that I donāt know and those who I do know and love. Not fuckin doing that shit.
Iām a psych major currently working towards gaining a Masters for counseling psych or maybe even a Psy.D. for clinical psych so like. I always try to remain in the right for things of mental health (even if the psych field considers it to be āin the wrong,ā because, letās be honest, itās had and still has its faults and has a habit of not listening to actual mentally disabled people and taking them seriously) and learn from any mistakes Iād make. Just wanna help people and I gotta listen to them and their experiences in order to make that happen. Fucking over and badmouthing Autism Speaks is just a pleasurable way to do that >:3c