They don't listen to the people they purport to stand for and protect, they actively harm us and destroy lives. The important lesson to take away from it is listen to your comrades when they speak to you about their experience, because we don't have a lot of people listening to us and not telling us we're wrong and bad
For anyone completely out of the loop, I guess this /r/BreadTube thread discussing this video about Autism Speaks last month is an okay introduction.
they've mutilated many people by trying to 'cure' them by basically giving them bleach enemas.
Fuck autism speaks.
Autism Speaks seems to be a horrible organisation, but the guy in the video arguing that developing a genetic cure to autism would be a genocide, actually, - a bit silly. I'm not an autism expert this whole "low need autism is just autism in low IQ people who got abused" seems like crank science, right? Also, weird how he goes for the blindness comparison, considering how deafness advocats were probably the first to use his "culture not illness" argument.
I see. That was the terminology used in the video by the autism advocacy guy.
Yeah as with a lot of stuff like this its not well known, only learned of it myself with in the last couple months, but I think it fits in quite nicely with "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need" :)
I don't mean to be presumptive but are bright colors and loud noises overwhelming for autistic people? I can't think of a worse vehicle than a brightly colored siren box. Not to mention the times that police have beat up autistic people.
they absolutely can be for me, but other times they can be soothing. depends a lot on context
But yeah, in my nightmares of being caught in a police riot that's the car that'll roll up on me from now on
And it's not presumptive, it was an honest question asked with the intent to better understand, and that's always good <3
I don’t mean to be presumptive but are bright colors and loud noises overwhelming for autistic people?
Depends on the person. I think autistic people have a tendency to be more easily overwhelmed / overstimulated than most people (I certainly do!) but for me it doesn't really present visually like that. Flashing lights, bright colors, all that's fine. Sounds certainly, but it's usually about overlaying sounds that I'm trying to focus on. So, to go through a couple examples: Busy street full of cars, police sirens / ambulance sirens etc? All fine, I can just tune it all out. Various voices in their own conversations in a room? Totally fine. Video games and music combined? Fine. Video games, music, and one voice trying to talk to me? Suddenly that's overwhelming. So I turn off the music at that point.
Speaking as someone with aspergers specifically.
idk about bright colors, but loud noises are terrifying as fuck for me, speaking as an aspie
more 👏 autistic 👏 officers 👏 murdering 👏 unarmed 👏 non-white 👏 people 😃
Pigs really are the worst, even when they actually are trying to "help".
Aren't people with autism highly likely to be subject to police brutality? This is disgraceful.
