April is Autism Awareness month, but this "awareness" too often takes the form of fear-mongering or vague feel-good campaigns that don't really do anything to improve the lives of autistic individuals and their families.
There is a growing movement to make April "Autism Acceptance Month" and to make real changes in how people with autism are treated in our society.
I came across this blog post this morning. It's lengthy, but makes so many excellent points:
Autism Awareness is Not Enough: Here's How to Change the World
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Autism Awareness is Not Enough
Last edited by Gena; 04-10-2012 at 12:19 PM.
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“Autistics are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg." - Paul Collins, Not Even Wrong
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