tmorrow459:

tmkristen:

its-mostly-just-shit:

tmorrow459:

its-mostly-just-shit:

tmkristen:

I just wanted to say that I’m tired of this constant fighting between autistics and non-autistics. Why can’t we just get along and have respectful discussions from both parties? I hate it when my fellow…

I agree with its-mostly-just-shit.

I liken it to the LGBTQ community. LGBTQ people themselves can talk until they’re blue in the face about how they’re not bad people, and that they deserve equal rights, but, sadly, most people won’t listen to them. However, when a straight person allies themselves to the LGBTQ community, it packs a bigger punch and LGBTQ people can start getting the respect they deserve. 

When you are in a minority group, the majority won’t listen to you until someone from the majority joins the minority. Minority groups form when the majority wants nothing to do with them. That’s just how society operates. 

What the autistic community needs to do is work on getting allies from the allistic community. Once we get allies, things will change, the allies will slowly be unneeded, and people will start listening less to the allies and more to us. 

Yeah, I’m for that too, really.

Allies are cool, but from what I’ve seen, the biggest difference is made by role models. Not only do they give those within the community a source of pride, but that few things impact a (potentially malleable) bigot like “you know X, whom you worship, is a Y.” Think of the reaction from geekdom when Sulu and Spock came out. Or from the military when all these heavily decorated combat veterans did.