Autism Acceptance Day 2013: Asking the question - How does it make you feel?

[nightengalesknd]

Unsurprisingly, our local free parenting magazine is featuring autism this month. I haven’t read the articles, but the cover art consists of paper-doll style people holding hands. They are all different colors, and cut out of the head of each one is a hole the shape of a jigsaw puzzle piece

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[ext_1732497]

Well. This is a new one. Now we are not puzzle pieces but we have part of our heads missing. Wow. Talk about alarmist!!! I was not thrilled with the puzzle piece deal, as it states to me that ' If you are not just like us, at the same "functioning level" in all areas, and a cookie cutter duplicate of whatever is the popular thing at this moment, you are less than human, because the washing machine settings don't understand that' But to say we have additional holes in our heads? How RUDE. (Oops, though, politeness is no longer the popular thing of the moment so my even saying that shows my defectiveness...and I Don't Give a Rat's Posterior.)

Just looks like more alarmist dreck to me. Same old, same old. And why I am" toning it down taupe" this year.

[nightengalesknd]

Yes I now have a Taupe ribbon (with googly eyes) on my office door at work. About 40% of our patients are kids on the autism spectrum so I'm making a statement about prioritizing their actual needs and desires, not the care/cure rhetoric.

[kittenmommy]

What's the googly-eyed taupe ribbon symbolize?

[nightengalesknd]

Neurodivergent K explains it best here but the short answer is, Tone It Down Taupe is the response to Light It Up Blue! Taupe to represent toning down the alarmism and googly eyes to represent the insistance on eye contact.

[kittenmommy]

That's awesome!

[kittenmommy]

I just read the post about the taupe ribbon. I'm so touched that someone is thinking of the plight of we neurotpyical people! ;)