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Autism Acceptance

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It is currently World Autism Acceptance week and also National Autism Awareness month. I know there are mixed views on these events; I would be interested in hearing opinions about these.

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  • Thanks for your replies Dawn, Jim, and the now unfortunately 'deleted user'. 

    I definitely agree that these types of events are opportunities to educate but I worry that autistic people's voices aren't listened to and drowned out by well meaning but ultimately misinformed professionals. Autistic people should be treated as the experts on their own experience. 

    Something that frustrated me was the advertisement (probably to line up with Autism Acceptance Month) which characterised autism as a dysfunction of the brain caused by brain viruses. For the author, autism, ADHD and chronic fatigue syndromes are essentially the same thing and are fundamentally 'curable' diseases. This sort of nonsense is amplified during these events. 

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  • Thanks for your replies Dawn, Jim, and the now unfortunately 'deleted user'. 

    I definitely agree that these types of events are opportunities to educate but I worry that autistic people's voices aren't listened to and drowned out by well meaning but ultimately misinformed professionals. Autistic people should be treated as the experts on their own experience. 

    Something that frustrated me was the advertisement (probably to line up with Autism Acceptance Month) which characterised autism as a dysfunction of the brain caused by brain viruses. For the author, autism, ADHD and chronic fatigue syndromes are essentially the same thing and are fundamentally 'curable' diseases. This sort of nonsense is amplified during these events. 

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