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56 Aspies

Martian Tom

Something occurred to me earlier when I read about the social media campaign that has been started by 56 black men, using photographs of themselves wearing hoodies.

In case you haven't heard about it, you can read about it here:

Why 56 black men are posing in hoodies

These are all black men who are successful in their own right: politicians, directors, teachers, entrepreneurs, etc.

The campaign has a very simple and important purpose: to challenge perceptions and stereotypes.

22 of these men appeared on the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC2 to discuss the campaign and the reasons for it. 

Footage of their appearance is here:

Victoria Derbyshire

I was wondering what people think about setting up a similar campaign for Aspies (men and women). 

And about seeing if we can get a similar chance to have our say on national TV.

Part of starting a dialogue, maybe...

Any thoughts?

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  • Just curious whether anything came out of this idea?

    It is such a good idea imo.

  • in reply to Tinyexplorer

    Hi there,

    Thanks for dropping by.  I wrote to loads of people,  but only got one response - from the head of my local authority's Autism Team.  He thought it could be a good idea, too.  I even wrote to the NAS's Media and Marketing Departments.  Nothing from them at all.  What a surprise!

    I haven't forgotten about it.  But getting back to full-time work has taken up a lot of my time and energy.  I've just had a couple of days off, and have been using the time to prepare some material for work for Autism Awareness Week.  It would have been good to have an idea like this up and running to coincide with the week, but that can't happen now.  Maybe another time.

    Quite disillusioned, though, that I wrote to so many people (including at the NAS) and heard nothing back.

  • in reply to Martian Tom

    It can be very disheartening to get no response, but this is not a reason to not try.

    It is only by whipping up support that our campaigns will be heard.  And the campaign should be ongoing.  The next stage would be writing again saying it is 'just in case' the original got lost.  And following it all up by phone calls and acknowledging and co-operating with positive responses.

    Unfortunately, doing this takes a considerable amount of time and life gets in the way.

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  • in reply to Martian Tom

    It can be very disheartening to get no response, but this is not a reason to not try.

    It is only by whipping up support that our campaigns will be heard.  And the campaign should be ongoing.  The next stage would be writing again saying it is 'just in case' the original got lost.  And following it all up by phone calls and acknowledging and co-operating with positive responses.

    Unfortunately, doing this takes a considerable amount of time and life gets in the way.

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