#stopautismspeaks

I am autism.

You think I am broken, but I am strong.

You think I am scared, but I am dauntless.

You tried to erase me, but I will not be silenced.

I am the woman that speaks her mind,

I am the boy whose love is gender blind.

I am the kid full of creativity, the one who has the great ideas,

I am the girl who dreams of equality, who doesn’t give into her fears.

I am the man not ashamed to have tears,

I am the person that is timeless, my soul cannot be defined by years.

Where you seek order, chaos whispers my name.

Where you seek mayhem, I wish for peace.

I am intuition,

I am passion.

I am kindness,

I crave equality and peace.

You think I’m defective,

But your perception of me is deceptive.

For I am radical, I am rebellion.

I am new ideas in a world that longs for change.

I seek to gift kindness to those oppressed.

But for my neurotype, I am told others know best.

I will not be silenced,

Or told who I can and cannot love.

I will not be fixed, for I am not broken.

Social rules will not make me conform

Please, please, please, signal boost this!!

This is the petition to stop the fundraiser that Next ForAutism has started.

Next ForAutism is fundraising for money for eugenics, aka, how to get rid of an undesirable gene/piece of DNA before birth. They’re trying to get rid of autism.

They also practice ABA (Applied Behaviour Analysis: literally legal torture for autistic children) and are in association with Autism Speaks.

Dear Tumblr and the...few people who follow this little blog,

I, am autistic. I have had autism all of my life, my father has autism, and it’s very likely that my grandfather also has autism. And when I see a “charity” like Autism Speaks make a commercial that dehumanizes I and my ilk...well, it’s obvious that I might get a little angry. 

Autism Speaks is the reason why my aunt J is afraid to give her kids vaccines for anything, Autism Speaks is the reason why I was almost kicked out of my middle and high schools for, and direct quote “having certain special needs that we cannot provide.” end quote. I, am a fully functional human being, I can feed myself, and I have the mental capacity to not kill myself out of lack of object permanence. 

I am what is known in the psychiatric field as a “high-functioning” autistic, or having Asperger's Syndrome. Whatever. And that takes up most of the autistic diagnoses, period. But what really pisses me off is when a so-called charity sows seeds of paranoia and misinformation about something that is easily manageable with therapy for most cases. 

Autism speaks claims to be for helping those with autism and helping to fund autism research, but more than a third of their overall donations go not toward that, but conjuring up a pre-natal thing that can help detect Autism. This made me want to bang my head against a wall for several hours. Autism is not a disease that can be caught like the Flu or an STD, you cannot “catch” Autism. Let me restate that AUTISM IS NOT A DISEASE. Autism is a thing that happens during brain development and is not preventable.