I saw that one advert supporting autism $peaks that said sth like โit costs $60,000 more per year to care for a person with autismโ and let me tell you.
those figures only made me feel like a burden on my family. my first thought wasnโt โthis is something in support of autistic people!โ it was โdo I really cost my family that much?โ
itโs not like the advert gave legitimate sources for that statistic. itโs not like they made it clear what the donations going to autism $peaks would be used for. it mostly just made us out to be a burden.
that advert wasnโt โhelp autistic peopleโ, it was โgive sympathy points to caregivers who have to deal with an autistic personโ.
it didnโt read like โweโre here to help people!โ. it read like โlook how awful it is to deal with an autistic personโ.
it didnโt paint us as people, it painted us as problems.
thatโs the issue present in all adverts published by or in support of autism $peaks. the goal isnโt to help us. itโs not about the autistic people. itโs about the caregivers. itโs about making sure the general public thinks society is better of without autistic people.
itโs โlook at this poor caregiver! their life wouldnโt be like this without that nasty autism!โ
to support autism $peaks is to support the idea that autistic people are not people, but problems.
we are not a problem to be fixed. we are autistic people, and we donโt need autism $peaks to speak for us.
ALL CHILDREN NEED MONEY
NEEDING MONEY IS NOT EXCLUSIVE TO AUTISTIC CHILDREN
gollums loincloth is like 2 inches of toilet paper and heโs hopping around like disneys quasimodo doing acrobatics and we as an audience are narrowly spared from seeing his peepee but you cannot you CANNOT argue that sam and frodo didnt see it at least once!! they didnโt want to but they didnโt have things like camera angles to save them they probably saw gollums swinging little meat sack a hundred times and both of them just decided to never ever mention it
did they decide to never ever mention it or are they talking about it constantly every time the camera cuts away? we the audience get to decide and thatโs why i think fiction is so powerful