Well well well, here comes another Autism Awareness Month. Gird your loins, fellow autistics. Those so-called “autism moms” and “warrior moms” will begin to compare autism to cancer (in that it causes suffering to them, as if the mother is the autistic one) and the autistic child to a demon.
Just to be sure, I AM NOT COMPARING AUTISM TO CANCER. CANCER IS A DISEASE; AUTISM IS SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY – A PROCESSING CONDITION. I am also NOT COMPARING THE AUTISTIC CHILD TO A DEMON. THE PARENTS ARE DOING THAT.
As you can plainly see, this type of awareness is harmful. If I were to have an autistic child, I would simply try to ease their suffering, while girding their loins for the battle-scarred future that awaits them, thanks to Awareness and Warrior Moms.
For those who are curious, my mother was never a Warrior Mom – or should I say Martyr Mom? – Sure, she was a warrior and a mom, but not a Warrior Mom in the self-righteous sense. You know, you are not paranoid if they really are out to get you.
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In addition to the issues you have highlighted here, the other problem with these “autism awareness” things, even when they are not abused in the way you have described is: “what happens for the rest of the year?” – our condition does not disappear just because it is back out of the spotlight again.
Well, for the rest of the year, we go back to making accommodations for the neurotypical people in our lives, and hoping (often in vain) for at least a couple of accommodations of our own in return.
My big annoyance with these sorts of things is the way they’re very much focussed almost entirely on children. Like, what, does autism vanish once you reach age 18? I could have done with knowing that when I started working out I was possibly autistic in my late twenties, and when other people started realising this might be the case in my forties!
I’d really love it if there were a bit more attention paid to autistic adults in these sorts of things – things like speaking to autistic adults, or asking us our opinions (of course, nobody’s going to do this, because autistic adults tend not to have the same opinion of priorities as the neurotypical parents running the various autism advocacy associations – particularly not Autism Speaks – and we therefore are dismissed as not being “on message”). Nothing about us without us and all that, y’know?