Autism Parents who try to undermine neurodiversity and paint autistic advocates as bullies for standing up for autistic rights are dangerous.
They often have extremely vulnerable nonspeaking autistic offspring (of all ages from toddler to adult) and never hesitate to trot them and all their struggles out as a gotcha to shut down autistic advocates.
Itās usually something like:
āMy kid is so severely autistic they canāt read or type, they wear diapers, smear their poop and beat themselves until they bleed, they will never live a normal life and Iād cure them in a second if I could! You donāt care about my child and you donāt know what real autism is!!!ā
Itās so dehumanizing and mean.
No parent who loves their offspring talks about them like these martyr autism parents talk about their offspring behind their back.
The problem isnāt the autistic person, itās the system failing to help these parents take care of them and give them a good life where they donāt have to self injure or scream or get their needs met.
Autistic advocates are fighting to create these systems and we have to deal with people who wonāt even listen to us. By fighting against us too, these parents are going to destroy what is supposed to be a better world for their autistic offspring.
I donāt get it their logic, and Iām so tired of trying to explain all that (āNo, thatās not what itās about, I care about your childās life and futureā¦ā) before I can even get to the meat of āthis is what weāre actually trying to do.ā
Weāve gained ground, donāt get me wrong. But I feel like the people who can help us the most are still trying to work against us and making everything a fight when it doesnāt have to be.
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