Acceptance vs Awareness
April is Autism Awareness Month but over the years we should change that to April should be Autism Acceptance Month.
Awareness is "knowledge or perception of a situation or fact" or "concern about and well-informed interest in a particular situation or development.
Acceptance is "the action of consenting to receive or undertake something offered" or "the action or process of being received as adequate or suitable, typically to be admitted into a group".
Autism Awareness Month was started by Autism Speaks. But the facts about Autism are "Autism Speaks is a hate group, the reasoning behind "Light It Up Blue" (that there are more autistic boys than girls) stems from a tendency in doctors to based their diagnoses on stereotypes and sometimes refuse to diagnose girls, most autistic people don't want a "cure" for autism and don't support Autism Speaks, autism is not disease, very little (about 4%) of Autism Speaks' proceeds go toward supporting autistic people, Autism is not tragedy."
This why we change Awareness Month to Acceptance Month.
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Autism, From Someone Who Is On The Spectrum
Non-FictionAutism from the perspective of a woman on the spectrum
