Thread by @erikaheidewald

We have one week until #ColorTheSpectrum. We're not going to stop it from happening but we could make it a PR disaster & that is what will stop them from doing these events in the future. I’m going to make YouTube videos & TikToks about it every day this week. Flood the hashtags

The livestream itself is going to be interactive. I don't know exactly how it will work, but we should be in there, interacting. There will be plenty of people tuning in on Friday who were not paying attention to the hashtag prior to that evening. It’s an opportunity for us.

Keep trying to get people to drop out, the Youtubers are probably reachable. Try to get them to make public statements. The celebrities are probably involved bc of Robert Smigel, he and his wife made The Night of Too Many Stars & work with Next for Autism nextforautism.org/news/twenty-mi…

There will be people who have never heard our perspective tuning in next Friday. As much as this sucks, it's nothing new. It's a continuation of decades of suckage. But we can be new. Celebs are used to using autism benefits to look good, get good PR. Let's fuck that up for them.

The message has to be we are autistic, this does not help us, we do not want this. ABA is abuse. Preventing autism is eugenics.

Many people have not heard that before. I had never heard of ABA until I started doing research after realizing I might be autistic. This is new.

We're not trying to change the minds of people who have been doing this for decades. We're trying to take away the reward they get for doing this. We're (rightfully) associating the words ABA and abuse in the public consciousness. That will take time, but that is what will work.

Because we are sharing a brand new message, that means it will take a while until it gains enough steam to change societal perceptions, but it also means every single person who hears you is affected by it. If it takes 7 times for people to learn a word, now it's 1 down, 6 to go.