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firemonkey
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25 Oct 2025, 11:51 am

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Autism charities are important organisations. They provide essential services for autistic people, influence policy decisions, and often speak on behalf of autistic people.

This means that how these charities write about autistic people may influence how society understands what it means to be autistic. The words and pictures that autism charities choose to use affect how autistic people are understood, perceived and cared for. This really matters, as autism is still often stigmatised.

Our recent study shows that the language and images large autism charities use mainly portray autistic people as a problem. In contrast, charities represent themselves as the solution to this problem.


https://theconversation.com/autism-char ... ers-267385


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25 Oct 2025, 2:12 pm

If you've met one Autistic, you've met one Autistic.

Maybe the charities that think we are all problems could help a few who are?

Me? I'd like them to just build-in some tolerance for my differences; I don't think that would be so hard.


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27 Oct 2025, 2:08 pm

I know of one organization that's really good at exploiting us.


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