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May. 8th, 2009 04:19 pmOprah is supporting Jenny McCarthy.
We can't keep letting this happen. We can't keep letting people speak for us.
We need to counter-act this. Get on TV, form picket lines. Scream, fight, stand up for ourselves. Because no one will.
People talk about 'eradicating' us. They say how having an autistic child is worse than having a child that is dead. They say that w're violent, that we're not good mothers or fathers or spouses. They say we can't go to college. They've made it so that people sympathize with parents who slaughter their children, and so many get off easy.
Where are the autistics on talk shows? Being condescended to. Being looked down on, being treated as if we are children, being laughed at. Being talked about with words as 'ill' and having to hear soft, amused chuckles when we say we are proud of who we are and that there is nothing wrong with us.
And as for many autistics? We're registered. Yes, you read that correctly. We are registered.
We can't continue to be silent. Silence just lets the hate breed.
We can't keep letting this happen. We can't keep letting people speak for us.
We need to counter-act this. Get on TV, form picket lines. Scream, fight, stand up for ourselves. Because no one will.
People talk about 'eradicating' us. They say how having an autistic child is worse than having a child that is dead. They say that w're violent, that we're not good mothers or fathers or spouses. They say we can't go to college. They've made it so that people sympathize with parents who slaughter their children, and so many get off easy.
Where are the autistics on talk shows? Being condescended to. Being looked down on, being treated as if we are children, being laughed at. Being talked about with words as 'ill' and having to hear soft, amused chuckles when we say we are proud of who we are and that there is nothing wrong with us.
And as for many autistics? We're registered. Yes, you read that correctly. We are registered.
We can't continue to be silent. Silence just lets the hate breed.