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Who are these grievance parents? They are generally—like me—parents of autistic children with significant disabilities. Except instead of targeting “the libs,” grievance parents and the forums they run target autistic, disability, and #neurodiversity activists. 5/

Thank you so very much for posting about how ag parents speak to autistic adults on social media. They’ve turned out to be not only hostile towards adult people with autism, but also towards autistic healthcare practitioners trying to help their children.

When society abandons parents of kids with special needs, it makes them easy prey for the grifters, the anti-science, bitterness-encouraging groups. And it doesn’t have to happen

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This is a great explainer. ABA is pretty much universally reviled in the community, but if you look for autism jobs, it’s all ABA “therapists” making minimum wage to traumatize kids. SO many of them.

To talk about disabilities with neutrality means they are neither bad nor good but just a fact of life.

Idk if I am navigating stuff like this well but we are certainly trying. Following to try and take in more of this perspective

My autistic teens say they're glad I'm autistic too because I understand them. They are horrified hearing stories of how autism warrior mamas (the most common term for them in the 2000s) treat their autistic kids. They know level 2 autism puts at higher risk of mistreatment by that kind of parent.

The hardest thing for me is that my autistic 20 something has no motivation or willingness to do anything. I do all the work around the house. She does work, doesn’t go to school and won’t volunteer even when I try to help. Financially this can’t last forever and with the current government…