A Neurodivergent Rebel's Ramblings
Health & Fitness:Mental Health
Moving Beyond Awareness, Working Toward Autistic Acceptance, Empowerment, & Inclusion
Awareness can be a good first step to fixing a problem (like the problems including Autistic & NeuroDivergent people in NeuroTypical society).
You see something’s broken (like many of our society’s systems are) and you may even take note of some the problems you have become AWARE of within the faulty system. You are now aware BUT awareness only goes so far.
Being AWARE of something is not the same as taking action. Awareness is very limited, in that it doesn’t move further, into taking actions as to what’s needed to truly include, empower, and accept Autistic people.
In the past Autism Awareness campaigns, in general, have been especially problematic, because they have a history of proving fear and stigma, around NeuroDivergence.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://neurodivergentrebel.com/2021/04/21/moving-beyond-awareness-working-toward-autistic-acceptance-empowerment-inclusion/
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