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hehimpronouns:

hehimpronouns:

to blame your racism on your autism is counter intuitive and reverses progress the autistic community has been making for years.

your autism is a part of you. it is not some part of your brain you can just scoop out, or something someone put in there and made you the way that you are. it is you. there is no point where autism ends and your brain begins. it is just as much a part of you as your natural abilities and weaknesses are, your memories, your hair colour and your height.

that is why saying things like, “i know he’s in there somewhere” about your autistic child is bad. a child hasn’t been stolen from a parent by the autism monster, having autism IS what makes their kid who he is. you all seem to be able to grasp that much.

so when people say, “yes, well, a trait of autism is to say horrible things sometimes! it’s just a part of our inability to understand social settings!”, it’s just ridiculous. yes, sure it does. and that’s why you have to take responsibility for it. because “autism” is not seperate to you. your autism did not say a racist thing at the dinner table, YOU did. because you are autistic. denying this is directly reversing progress, the fight by all your autistic siblings-in-arms and those autistic people who came before you who have been fighting to be seen as who they are. the idea that autism is seperate to us is literally rhetoric people use to argue that we can be “cured”.

so don’t use your autism as an excuse. it is you. you said that. work on yourself.

yes! i would be really grateful if white autistic people reblogged it and/or took it into account, actually.