AFAIK Autism Speaks fucking sucks. They should STFU.
Anon tries to break the ice
Submitted 12 hours ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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rumschlumpel@feddit.org 12 hours ago
Lumidaub@feddit.org 9 hours ago
He’s being self-deprecating for blurting out the first edgy nonsense that comes to mind, a tendency which he attributes (with good reason) to spending too much time on /b/. He may have intended his comment to be targeted at autism speaks instead of people wuth autism but to innocent bystanders that’s not obvious and he’s aware.
Viceversa@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
What’s wrong with them? Because I have no idea about them whatsoever.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 hour ago
They have a very outdated, paternalistic, rightwing view of autism. They very much view it as a disease on the level of cancer that needs to be cured, versus the “neurodiversity” view that most autistic autism activists have, and they have basically no (openly) autistic people in leadership positions. Also held on to the “vaccines cause autism” myth for a long time.
HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
Self-aware enough to realize he’s getting checked out, 8/10… Imma press X to doubt.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I think he means she’s processing his items at the cash register
Lumidaub@feddit.org 6 hours ago
Yeah, that’s more plausible than my attempt, hah.
tja@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Yes, that’s the joke
Lumidaub@feddit.org 8 hours ago
Eh… Not uncommon for socially awkward people to misinterpret professional friendliness for flirting.
IronBird@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
somebody said my hair looked nice, clearly dtf
ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 6 hours ago
Seriously though, fuck autismspeaks
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 27 minutes ago
Because Elon Musk? I get it.
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I’m kinda out of the loop, what did they do?
tomenzgg@midwest.social 8 hours ago
At one of my old jobs (which handled owning malls (I worked on the websites)), one of the locations would hold an event with Autism Speaks; during a meeting, someone mentioned that we needed to get the campaign advertisements on the site for one of their upcoming events.
At the mention of “Autism Speaks”, I reflexively went, “Ew.” Only dawned on me, after the fact, that it probably looked to the rest of my coworkers like I was ridiculously immature about and ablist towards autistic people.
Boingboing_r@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Once asked a girl what the orange ribbon on her jacket signified. She said domestic violence. I asked for or against? Sometimes I should just not be allowed to speak.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 hours ago
That’s not so bad. If you want to filter out people who don’t share your dark sense of humour, it could work
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The ‘against’ ribbon is orange. The ‘For’ ribbon is black and blue.
cRazi_man@europe.pub 3 hours ago
I saw a black and blue ribbon once. Everyone piled on me shouting that it is actually white and gold.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 hours ago
Either that or a police badge
x00z@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I thought it was red white and blue.
Viceversa@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Or is it white and gold?