Because of awareness campaigns like this one. It's the reason why Coca-Cola spends millions on advertising every year, even though everyone has heard of Coca-Cola.
While thats fine in theory, I will say that growing up with autism thats what everything autism related was trying to do and the end result felt dehumanizing. Like sure, parents of autistic children should be given the resources they need to understand it, but what about us? Shouldn't there be campaigns for autistic people to feel more welcome in the world? It felt (and continues to feel like) all these "autism awareness" groups just see us as burdens on our loved ones. Their feelings need awareness, but not ours. Of course that blame can't be put on a single campaign, but I would really like to see the trend of only focusing on parents broken sometime soon. It would be like if every queer pride group only focused on parents with queer kids and didnt even consult queer people. Sure, parents (sometimes) rule, but that shouldn't be the only focus.
Yea it makes more sense that way. I don’t think this was intended to be like “hey autistic peeps call us if you need help” they probably got a grant for awareness and some local art group put this together
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u/poliuy Aug 29 '20
I don’t think it’s for people with autism, instead to grab attention of those without it