Hey y'all, right now, Gamestop is asking people to donate to Autism $peaks, and as an Autistic person, I would just like to say
DO NOT FUCKING DONATE TO AUTISM $PEAKS
If you really want to donate to someone actually helping autistic people get jobs like they’re saying it’s for, fucking Microsoft would be better.
Autism $peaks is a hate group.
They openly advocate for the extermination of autistic people.
Every single one of their founders and chairpersons have openly admitted to contemplating the murder of their autistic child - in detail.
They advocate for a cure and support outdated and falsified information that a) vaccines cause Autism - Autism is genetic, the only “cure” is genocide - and b) white cis boys are the majority “afflicted”.
They compare Autism to cancer and use fearmongering to gain supporters. (Actual things their ads have said: Autism will ruin your marriage, Autism is invisible until it’s too late, Autism causes more deaths than any terminal illness, etc, etc.)
They support electroshock therapy and ABA institutions like the Judge Rotenberg Center (seriously, google it).
If you want to donate to charities actually doing good work for Autistic people, donate to The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN - @autisticadvocacy ) or The Autistic Women & Non-Binary Network (AWN - @awn-network ).
All of this could be found out with 30 seconds of googling, I don’t understand why companies insist on supporting a literal fucking hate group when there is so much out there about why not to and so many other, much better, charities to support.
Allistic people - please fucking reblog this
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