Isn’t autism speaks the one that wants to ““cure”” autism?
Seriously though, fuck autismspeaks
Because Elon Musk? I get it.
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.
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
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?
