Last updated on November 26, 2023
Time for my annual rejection of Autism Awareness Day and Month.
No thank you, we’re all overly “aware” of autism.
There are puzzle-piece car magnets and bumper stickers in the parking lot I use at the university. Local businesses have the “light it up blue” posters in their windows. Local radio and television air public service announcements every hour.
Enough.
It’s a month of promoting Autism Speaks, an organization I don’t support and neither do many autistic self-advocates.
Tonight, I’m not going to link to the past posts or to any of the 100s of stories appearing online today.
It’s an exhausting month. I will let someone else engage in the arguments.
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