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.

I hate teachers.

I hate teachers, schools, and pretty much everything in the formal education system that the Western world has today. This is for a reason.

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.

Why I refer to _myself_ as autistic, part thirty million.

I will be upfront about this. I like it when people write things that I agree with. I disagree with a lot of this article from one of the Dulocks. There are reasons for this. Anyone who expects me to agree that the “voices of parents are important” is kidding themselves. A parent’s voice is never important until it agrees with the objectives of the autistic. And even then, it is but a whisper in a flood of genuinely evil voices at present.

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.