@SenSchumer & @SenGillibrand, #ActuallyAutistic New Yorkers need you to #AbolishABA, which abuses autistic children, conditioning them to suffer in silence to accommodate the bigotry of allistic parents & authority figures.
The onus is on THEM to accommodate #neurodiversity!
The onus is on THEM to accommodate #neurodiversity!
https://twitter.com/autismsupsoc/status/1493673295626915842
"Allistic" is our preferred term for those who aren't punished by the majority for being different .
You may have heard the term "neurotypical"; that presupposes that you are the typical, better version, while we who are "neurodivergant" are implied inferior. 2/
You may have heard the term "neurotypical"; that presupposes that you are the typical, better version, while we who are "neurodivergant" are implied inferior. 2/
If autistic people were the majority, the shoe could just as easily be on the other foot.
You've constructed the dominant social norms, laws, corporate policies, etc. based on assumptions that we don't quite fit so well; this mismatch causes our difference to be a disability. 3/
You've constructed the dominant social norms, laws, corporate policies, etc. based on assumptions that we don't quite fit so well; this mismatch causes our difference to be a disability. 3/
Allistics pin all the blame on US, the minority, with less power to effect change, & demand that we do 100% of the work, changing ourselves to conform, even though for other disabilities, the ADA requires those with power & influence do the accommodating. 4/4
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