Pardon me, I am not celebrating yet.

One of my Fudgebook friends shared a news item. In it, the commercial entity known as Build-A-Bear Workshop announced (apparently to a mailing list) that they were ending their partnership with Autism Speaks For Normie Assholes. Great news by itself. But a wider context must be considered.

Things that need to be done for better inter-peoples communication.

You can tell a lot about a person by how they view themselves, the people they are a part of, or a particular outside group. This is an extension of “show me your friends and I will show you who you are”. It is about how you talk to your friends.

An open response to John Elder Robison

Very recently, concerns have been raised about John Elder Robison endorsing or supporting Autism Speaks For Normie Assholes on the sly. That is, his whole “I quit” declaration was basically smoke and mirrors. Robison has issued a statement that I will quote after the “jump” because it bears meaning in this case.

An autistic person just mouthed off at you? Really? I wonder why.

If there is one thing I hate more than a curebie, it is people who go into an autistic adult’s space and proclaim their support of curebies. And then act surprised when that autistic adult or adults respond with anger and hate.

Open letter to parental units.

Recently, I had occasion to comment on a story about one politician looking to make a name for himself by using Avonte Oquendo‘s name to push for Track The Autie laws.

A long walk down a very short road.

I am not happy about using Fudgebook. I have repeatedly posted in many places that the figurehead of its corporation is a stereotypical wanker who steals other people’s ideas and gets called a genius for it by the mainstream media. I have also had plenty to say about the fact that he says a lot that clearly does not reflect his actual behaviour. If he does not believe in privacy, why is he not posting us pictures of every time he shits, flosses, washes his hair, and so forth?

I just said something so awesome that the entire autistic civil rights movement should use it.

In a recent comment on someone else’s post, I wrote something about curebies that they will scream at, call slander, or the like. But it is probably the most awesomely true thing that I or anyone else has written about them. The entirety of the case that they put forth in order to support the idea that I and other autistic people should be strapped into chairs and have the autistic-ness sucked out of our brains without regard to, well, fact, rests entirely on straw men.