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Can we stop using "still lives with their parents" or "unemployed" or "doesn't have a drivers license" or "didn't graduate high school" as an insult or evidence that someone is a bad person? Struggling with independence or meeting milestones is not a moral failing.
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Hey, here’s a concept. What if we stopped saying “but autistic people CAN do all those things” (erasing high support needs) and instead started saying “not being able to do those things doesn’t impact someone’s value as a person nor does it make it okay to commit eugenics”.
dear autistics who
white
low support needs
not need 24/7 support
can work independently
can pay taxes
language privileged
intellectual & cognitive privileged
who can fit in societal definition of useful & productive (yes, even if hard)
when fight back against eugenics & ableism, you NEED to fight alongside, fight with, n fight for autistics who
racialized & POC
from places of world where there critically lack autism knowledge n support
visibly autistic
higher support needs
need 24/7 care
can’t work independently or even work at all
can’t pay taxes
nonverbal, nonspeaking, minimally verbal, without functional communication, or cannot communicate via language at all even AAC
w intellectual disability or cognitive disabilities
who cannot fit into society definition of useful n productive, no matter how hard we try
because we always are & always will be primary target.
because we most vulnerable most marginalized within our, OUR community, which you belong in.
because once they finish us off you won’t be spared.
I get really confused, and even angry sometimes at lower support needs people who don’t understand the true meaning of autonomy and when it comes to caregivers and guardianship.
I mentioned ONCE in a group about wanting to go into assisted living and looking into it. Immediately got dog piled by people saying to absolutely not go into assisted living because itd “take away my autonomy” and “I should just live with others for as long as possible.”
Assisted living, group homes, guardianship, whatever, can very much mean that someone actually GAINS autonomy. And independence. The goal is for quality of life. We should be focusing on quality of life instead of what YOU want. What YOU want as a lower support needs person because you’ve heard bad stories.
Higher support needs people often don’t get the decision. It’s life or death for them. Y’all HAVE to realize that.
Stop forcing your narrative on young higher support needs people who are looking into different options for their care. Yes. It’s SCARY to be put in a bad situation, but often times it’s trial and error for us. Y’all HAVE to realize that. We don’t have the privilege to pick and choose between if we just live independently or go in a group home. It’s group home, or death, or living in a fucked up, maybe even abusive situation already.
Stop it.
idk how to explain this but when higher support needs autistics complain about not having autism representation that represents them, and lower support needs autistics come in talking about "autistic-coded" characters, it kinda feels like a slap in the face.
like, i'm glad you feel represented by "autistic-coded" characters, but like... i want representation for level 2 and 3 autistics, low masking autistics, autistics who need caregivers, autistics who use aac (and not just high tech aac), multiply disabled autistics, autistics who have severe meltdowns, intellectually disabled autistics, autistics who need visible disability aids, autistics who need to be heavily accommodated or helped by others, etc etc etc.
it's okay to like autistic-coded characters, lower support needs characters, etc. i love those characters too! that kind of representation is also important! but i also think it would just be really nice and healing to see myself and my higher support needs autistic friends represented in media outside of just like, kids shows.
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As a medium/lower support needs autistic who works with young higher support needs autistic:
We all matter. We all have the same diagnosis. We all deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.
But we are not the same.
I can mask and might be seen as 'odd' or 'weird' in public. The students I work with are seen as 'dangerous' and 'practically little kids'.
I can go to university and work with accommodations. The students I work with likely will never live independently and a few might find jobs that support them but still pay them less than an abled worker.
I have full control of my finances. The students I work with aren't allowed to make independent financial decisions, even if capable.
If I say 'no,' I'm making a choice. The students I work with can't say 'no' without being labeled as defiant and difficult.
I can feed myself, bathe myself, and take care of myself with extreme challenges. The students I work with are unable to take care of themselves without high levels of support/one on one support.
I had an IEP in high school but was mainstreamed in classes. The students I work with take separate classes and some rarely get to interact with their abled peers.
Our experiences are fundamentally different. Higher support needs autistics will experience a specific type of ableism I never will, and can never fully understand.
Lower support needs autistics need to stop saying we understand what higher support needs autistics are going through and then present autism as only being disabling because of society/lack of acceptance because that is dangerous. We need to stop saying every autistic person is capable of everything if given the right support because that leaves out huge parts of our community who will never be able to do certain things, regardless of support.
We are worthy of existence regardless of our abilities.
Autism is a spectrum. It is not the same for every autistic person. Autism acceptance and advocacy has to come with accepting, acknowledging, and listening to our higher support needs peers.
This is a survey to understand how autistic people use and understand language. This survey is just for fun, not research! You're allowed to
This is a survey to understand how autistic people use and understand language. @neurodivergent-mermaid, a nonverbal autistic person, gave me the idea and helped me word some of the questions.
The survey is for everyone who has or might have autism, including those who suspect autism but aren't diagnosed with it. This survey is just for fun, not research!
Page 1 is about how well you can talk and write. This includes how often you go mute and if you can talk during meltdowns.
Page 2 is about how well you can understand language.
Page 3 is about other conditions that you might have that can affect your language.
Page 4 is about your developmental history. This includes when you started talking and if you've had speech therapy.
Page 5 is about demographics. It asks your autism diagnosis, age, gender, and ethnicity.
You can skip any questions that you do not want to answer. You can stop taking the survey at any time. If you do not submit the survey, no one will see your responses. The survey is completely anonymous; no one will know if you took the survey or what your responses are.
When I have enough responses, I'll post them here!
yeah, you're autistic, but do you make fun of people who have "childish" or "immature" interests? do you look down on people who talk to themselves or use obvious, unmasked repetititive movements in public and/or avoid being associated with then? do you berate people who can't understand social cues and/or nuance and/or aren't adept at realizing when they're crossing boundaries as you are because you think that they "should know better"? do you treat people who can't always or ever tell that someone else is bullying / mistreating them like they're too clueless to have autonomy? do you look on in disgust at people who aren't toilet trained / don't maintain hygiene / have "gross habits"? do you view others who don't try as hard to mask and / or aren't as adept as "putting on a show" or "faking" their autistic traits?
because like - never gonna deny anyone else's autism, and there's no way for anyone to fully understand someone else's internal experience - but if you as an autistic person still throw the people in your demographic that aren't as adept at hiding their Less Savory autism traits under the bus so that you can distance yourself from the so-called Bad Autistics, then you really need to try harder to protect the people in your community that are truly vulnerable and also realize that you, yourself, are not exempt from being othered just as easily as the rest of us if you slip up.
