acephobes:
cishet aces/aros don't belong in the LGBT+ community because they don't share our history!!!!! it's so ahistorical!!!!!
bi people who were actually there:
actually aces/aros people have been in our community since the beginning, except that we used to just consider them bi since we didn't have today's terminology at the time
acephobes:
oh my gOD i can't believe you think bisexuality means ace people!!!! fucking aces!!!!!!
bi people who were actually there:
*didn't say that*
bi people who were actually there:
*aren't even ace*
Or y’know, it’s a episode about a very young girl who wants to have a unicorn and just so happens to have a dad who can basically do science magic like he did in the original show, with a side plot concerning the mayor talking about literally the only thing he cares about. I highly doubt those hacks in CN nowadays know what they’re doing anymore, so they’re just pulling character traits and references to the original out of their asses and you’re reading waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too into this.
They themselves confirmed this was a trans issues episode, don’t even try to pull this excuse.
somebody:
if you REALLY cared about things you'd remember them
me, a person with memory problems who consistently forgets information pertaining to things and people i love deeply:
okay
so I have an idea for a shitpostgenerator spin off based around how people will tag Shitbot’s posts and relate them to certain fandoms?
What about a robot that randomly generates nonsense jeopardy questions that tumblr tries to solve
I.e. “This anime features sexy frogs as villains”
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reversalmushroom asked: Do you think a kid's show can even do a good episode about transsexuality, or do you feel that because they're not allowed to actually talk about stuff like that directly, they would just butcher and half-ass it and shouldn't even touch it?
Image description: A youtube comment posted by user “grandmasbabees”. Their avatar is a family portrait featuring a white multigenerational family. The message reads: You paint with too broad of a brush. You may not want a cure but the family that struggles with their aged out of the system non verbal in diapers and severe self abuse DESERVE A CURE. Open up your world and see others before you say Autism should not be cured.
Above is a youtube comment that I recieved on my What’s Wrong With Autism Speaks? video. Below is my response:
Hi grandmasbabees. Firstly, I did not say Autism should not be cured: I said it can not be cured, and that many Autistic people and their families do not think that Autism needs a cure. My opinion is that focusing on a cure for Autism is harmful and unhelpful, but opinions mean little when what our science knows of Autistic neurology says that Autism will never be curable.
The reason that Autism will never be a curable condition is because it is a developmental disability. Autism is a neurological condition, not a disease. Diseases and illnesses can be cured. Developmental disorders can not. There is no way to change the physical and neurological structure of the brain of a living human being, and so there will never be a cure for developmental disabilities.
Secondly, you say that the families of “ non verbal in diapers and severe self [abusive]” Autistic people deserve a cure. I say that the insistence on searching for a cure for Autism is not only futile, it is unfair to the very Autistic people that you mention.
By making discussions of a theoretical “cure” all about the families of Autistic people– by focusing only on how hard it is for the neurotypical family members and by insisting that they deserve a cure– you are erasing the experiences of all the actual non-verbal Autistic people. You say family members deserve a cure– I say that Autistic people, and their families, deserve better.
Autistic people deserve to have all those millions of dollars that currently go to research to be redirected towards services and accommodation for Autistic people and their families. All that “research” is focused on finding the “Autism gene”, or developing a prenatal test for Autism. Meanwhile, one in a hundred people on this planet have ASD, and many of those people are non-verbal and frustrated. Many of these people are being mistreated or even murdered, and their families are struggling. A pre-natal test for Autism wouldn’t help any of those Autistic people or their families.
The thing that we all need to understand about self-harming behaviours in non-verbal Autistic people is that it Autistic people don’t self-harm because it is an inevitable symptom of Autism, or to make the lives of their loved ones more difficult. Self-injurious behaviour is an expression of a frustration that is unimaginable to neurotypical people.
Non-verbal Autistic people who can’t speak with their mouths and who have no other way to communicate will self-harm out of deep frustration and in an attempt to control their environment. Now, what would happen if those millions of dollars currently going towards “research” (which isn’t helping any existing Autistic people or their families at all) was instead poured into programs to help non-verbal Autistic people communicate via alternative methods?
Text-to-speech, AAC, the rapid prompting method, sign language– all of these alternative methods have the potential to give non-verbal Autistic people the chance to express themselves. And the interesting thing about self-harming behaviour is that it decreases exponentially as a person’s ability to communicate and make their needs known increases. Self-harming behaviour is not inevitable in Autistic people, it is an expression of being frustrated, misunderstood, and (as Carly Fleischmann has said) “trapped in a body [they] can’t control”.
Along with providing the teaching and technology needed to allow non-verbal Autistic people to communicate via alternative methods, putting the money that now goes towards “research” towards the area of “family services” would provide more and better therapies, accommodation, and education for Autistic people. That money could also provide services, financial assistance, and respite care for the families of Autistic people.
Autism can never be cured, and since the best we could hope for is a pre-natal test to detect Autism in fetuses, it doesn’t really matter who does or who doesn’t think Autism “should” be cured. So instead, instead of spending millions of dollars trying to find a genetic marker or pre-natal test (a goal that we may never achieve anyway), I believe that we should focus on helping actual Autistic people who are alive now.
You are right. I don’t think that Autism needs a cure, even if it could be cured. I think that Autistic people need understanding, acceptance, and accommodation.
I believe that Autism organizations should be putting money towards providing what Autistic people need to communicate, learn, and grow into healthy, happy Autistic people, and on providing the assistance and services that the families of Autistic people need to thrive and be healthy.
I know that Autism Speaks does a terrible job of being a charity, and that their message of ignorance, fear, and hate actively hurts Autistic people, and that Autism Speaks perpetuates cure culture and the search for cure or medical treatments for Autism to keep parents desperate and generate money.
I also know that messages like yours come from a place of emotional hurt, so I don’t take them personally. While acceptance is the hardest topic for the neurotypical family of Autistic people to understand and accept, I am glad to have the chance to address it.
Speaking of worlds opening up, I feel like you probably haven’t read any of the writings by the “severely autistic” non-verbal Autistic advocates that I linked to in my video description. If you are interested in opening up your world and seeing what the Autistic community is saying about Autism Speaks, cure culture, and acceptance, you can use the resources below as a starting point:
