Isn’t autism speaks the one that wants to ““cure”” autism?
Seriously though, fuck autismspeaks
Because Elon Musk? I get it.
Self-aware enough to realize he’s getting checked out, 8/10… Imma press X to doubt.
Eh… Not uncommon for socially awkward people to misinterpret professional friendliness as flirting.
I mean Autism Speaks is a pretty shit org, I really do wish they’d stop speaking at all
Ooh, I thought that was the joke! He meant that autistic people should stop speaking altogether?
At one of my old jobs (which handled owning malls (I worked on the websites)), one of the locations would hold an event with Autism Speaks; during a meeting, someone mentioned that we needed to get the campaign advertisements on the site for one of their upcoming events.
At the mention of “Autism Speaks”, I reflexively went, “Ew.” Only dawned on me, after the fact, that it probably looked to the rest of my coworkers like I was ridiculously immature about and ablist towards autistic people.
AFAIK Autism Speaks fucking sucks. They should STFU!
Not sure what anon was actually going for. Self-identification as autistic seems pretty common on 4chan, is he tired of speaking? Trying to make a point about Autism Speaks? Just being ableist?
He’s being self-deprecating for blurting out the first edgy nonsense that comes to mind, a tendency which he attributes (with good reason) to spending too much time on /b/. He may have intended his comment to be targeted at autism speaks instead of people wuth autism but to innocent bystanders that’s not obvious and he’s aware.
Based on my experience, a long time ago, no. Even if they self-diagnose as autistic, they also say hateful things about them, and anyone else for that matter.
omg twinsies
Isn’t Autism Speaks that shitty org that actually does a lot of harm?
