Hi everyone, I’m new to tattle and I’m new to Fathering autism. I’m an autistic girl and I’ve been reading a lot of these posts that you guys have been writing.
It’s been autism acceptance month which has given me confidence to speak up to people about what being autistic is like, correcting people’s language and talking about taboo topics. I just wanted to write some here, for me and for Abbie who deserves to be listened to. I don’t think she is listened to.
We are still human, please watch what you say. Our brains aren’t mush, we stim, we flap, but we know exactly what is going on.
we hate functioning labels. High and low functioning labels are a pile of rubbish. It Is so damaging to us.
I see that farthering autism is using ABA. That is torture. ABA suppresses our natural autistic behaviour to make us ‘fit in’ to society more. It basically makes us less autistic. Less of us being us. It’s like parents use it to make us easier work for them.
last thing is, please listen to autistic voices. If an autistic person is offended by someone, you should take that on board. We know more about autism than parents, teachers, and doctors.
Editing this. I forgot to say about person first language. We prefer autistic. It isn’t an insult. Don’t be afraid of calling us autistic, it’s who we are and we love it