Thread by @KieranRose7

1. Oh was yesterday #AutismAwarenessDay? Dang. I missed it. Instead I stayed off of social Media and spent a lovely day with my #ActuallyAutistic family not waving jigsaw pieces around, turning blue or spreading misinformation around that makes money for charities.

2. Later on I did a 3hr workshop on #AutisticMasking to 400 lovely Danish people with @DrAmyPearson. I missed #AutismAwarenessDay yet still somehow managed to pass on a shitload of useful & practical #Autism knowledge to a shitload of people

3. Its strangely like there's no need to have #AutismAwarenessDay, #AutismAwarenessWeek, or #AutismAwarenessMonth because for many Autistic people every day is, week and month of the year where we put out immensities of useful & productive #Autism information in various forms.

4. #AutismAwarenessDay, #AutismAwarenessWeek & #AutismAwarenessMonth have now had to be negated by #AutismAcceptance Its become a competition, where #ActuallyAutistic people are forced to work even harder to challenge the awful, misinformed, infantilising narratives being put out

5. Our lives are hard enough already. Poor mental health, high suicide rate, burnout, all caused by stigma, trauma, misinformation & marginalisation thats both fed by & feeds narratives like those put out by #AutismAwarenessDay, #AutismAwarenessWeek & #AutismAwarenessMonth

6. So how about doing #AutisticAcceptance? Platform Autistic voices, listen to Autistic voices, act on Autistic words, give money to Autistic-led grass roots organisations and actually do something active, instead of the passiveness & performativeness of #AutismAwareness

7. Your good intent often has negative impact that you do not see. So maybe try listening to the people who can see.

#AutismAcceptanceMonth #AutismAcceptanceWeek #AutismAcceptanceDay #AutismAcceptance365 (and a 1/4)