Acceptance should not be contingent on how useful we are to the rest of the world

Alex Kronstein posts Acceptance should not be contingent on how useful we are to the rest of the world


I recently saw this on Twitter:

"Greta Thunberg is the perfect demonstration of non-autistic people accepting us if we are of use to them - and demonizing us if we aren't.

When I behave like her, I don't get applauded - I get punished.

Authentic, natural autisticness is NOT accepted in our society."

Yes. All of this.

I would add that this is exactly why NT parents dismiss us and demonize us more often than not....because they don't see #ActuallyAutistic people as being useful to them.

And it's a huge problem when we discuss non-speaking or so-called "severe" autistics.

And when we discuss how harmful ABA is? Well.....

I could go into lengthy detail about how often the NT parents go after us for that. On the whole, NT parents don't give a shit about us, because we won't tell them how wonderful they are and confirm their martyr complex.m