It is not hyperbole to say that there are young children, infants, and babies not yet conceived who will someday suffer unnecessary, preventable illness and death because these conspiracy theory-loving lunatics were given the keys to the kingdom, so to speak.
You keep using the phrase "autism advocacy." Can you please expand on what that is? Because as a recently (late) diagnosed autistic woman and parent of autistic children, litigious vaccine denial is the absolute last thing I think about when I hear it. For me, autism advocacy means centering the voices of autistic people of all ages at all levels of support needs in fostering autism awareness, acceptance and inclusion. (Basically autism DEI.)
It sickens me and is highly offensive to hear this phrasing used in connection with any of these people. Can we find alternate language to describe their "work" with the autistic community? That particularly autistic community largely being comprised of "autism warrior moms" who center autism around themselves and how awful and hard it is for THEM. They usually have no use or regard for the struggles of their actually autistic children or the adult autistic community whose lived experiences should be the main drivers of any advocacy. "Nothing about us without us."
It is not hyperbole to say that there are young children, infants, and babies not yet conceived who will someday suffer unnecessary, preventable illness and death because these conspiracy theory-loving lunatics were given the keys to the kingdom, so to speak.
Such bullshit, this! I’m stompin’ spittin’ furious! Unnecessary anguish on so many levels. Why folks gotta be so damn MEAN?
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You keep using the phrase "autism advocacy." Can you please expand on what that is? Because as a recently (late) diagnosed autistic woman and parent of autistic children, litigious vaccine denial is the absolute last thing I think about when I hear it. For me, autism advocacy means centering the voices of autistic people of all ages at all levels of support needs in fostering autism awareness, acceptance and inclusion. (Basically autism DEI.)
It sickens me and is highly offensive to hear this phrasing used in connection with any of these people. Can we find alternate language to describe their "work" with the autistic community? That particularly autistic community largely being comprised of "autism warrior moms" who center autism around themselves and how awful and hard it is for THEM. They usually have no use or regard for the struggles of their actually autistic children or the adult autistic community whose lived experiences should be the main drivers of any advocacy. "Nothing about us without us."