Thread by @AutSciPerson

This is not a subtweet or a call out.

I just hate how non-autistic people center their fears and personal concerns when speaking against eugenics.

Non-autistic people have so much more power to actually change this than autistic people do.

Please remember that.
#Spectrum10K

I mean damn, my entire twitter account and blog weren't things that I actively wanted to do.

I was already writing stuff just to be able to process being autistic and navigating my life.

I saw how it helped others so I kept doing it..

and now it feels like I have an obligation to the community.

Don't get me wrong, I don't hate it.

But I don't really have the opportunity to think "hm this might reduce my future career opportunities so I guess I shouldn't speak up when researchers are calling me a disease.."

It's such a f*cking privilege to not have to care. That's true for any marginalized identity (I have tons of privilege in other identities).

I guess I see non-autistic people trying and all,

but non-autistic researchers will never understand just how horrific this is to us.

It will never be as important as it is to us. I used to think science was this amazing thing and I still do sometimes,

but I've learned that it's certainly not objective & can certainly be used for harm (just read Ann Memmott's research twitter threads..).
It's so disheartening.

Every autistic person I know who has been helping with #StopSpectrum10K is constantly apologizing for being burnt out, for extraneous circumstances, for not being able to do so much. We're all apologizing to each other.

Where are the non-autistic people in this?

Where are you?

If you're out there and you want to help, consider sharing, reading, and signing this -

form.jotform.com/aucademy/boyco…

And thank you to any and every autistic person who has been helping with #StopSpectrum10K
There have been so many autistic people reaching out & helping. Thank you.