Thread by @ekverstania

Have you noticed that autism industry professionals who say that their favourite autistic writers are Temple Grandin and Carly Fleischmann usually haven't read anything written by any other autistic people, and even those two were several years ago?

"But I've learned soooo much from working with people with autism!"

"Like what?"

"Like patience!"

🙄 "What have you learned from autistic people about dealing with the body-mind disconnect? And autistic burnout?"

"I haven't heard of that."

Dear Autism Industry Overdogs

There's something different about learning from a position of power compared to learning along with equals, or subordinating yourself to someone's tutelage. Most of you people have a LOT to learn.

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You may have the patience to wait for your clients' compliance while you accept their parents' money, but do you have the patience to learn from angry, marginalised, noncompliant people who are upset about the arrogance in your industry, who have a hard time disguising it?

I mean, do you actually WANT to learn? Or are you only there when it's a formal event with Professional Development Points which you can submit to your professional body?

Can you imagine if software developers had this attitude towards learning? 😆

Shucks. It's past 1 in the morning. How did that happen? I must go to bed.

To all my therapist and teacher friends who are great at listening and learning from many autistic people: thank you for swimming upstream.

During the past five years, there have been many times that your victories have been our victories, and our victories have been yours.

Uh. Why is it that in 99.91% of stock photos of people on mountains, all the people are white? 🤔

I need a different metaphor.