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What success have you had with promoting Autism Acceptance?

Matthias said:
I wish you'd understand that people can accept you and any autistic children you may have without accepting your opinion of autism. The reason some people would like to see a world without autism isn't because they hate autistic people but because they believe people with autism would be better off if someone cured their autism in the same way that some people may think people with schizophrenia would be better off if someone cured their schizophrenia.

If people need to accept autism to accept people with autism, why not push for acceptance of other conditions as well? "All I want is for my future children to grow up in a world where Psychopathy isn’t demonized, where people openly fantasizing about a world where there are no Psychopaths and how wonderful that world would be."
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I don't have Autism I am Autistic, and I intend to raise my future children the same way.

The other people on this thread are free to respond however they please, like I said, I'm not the boss of them.
 
Success? None. None at all. "Crash and burn". People I thought I knew online for a long time, but apparently it wasn't the case over this particular issue.

Allows me to conclude that no matter how much so many of us may want to convey such a message to the rest of the world, that most likely only a select few are capable of effectively delivering it to those who need to hear it the most. -Which isn't me.
 
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tree said:
It appears that you are disappointed in the response to your question
and find that, once again, you're busy and can't find time to participate
in discussion.
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I just wanted advice on how to promote Autism Acceptance for my future children, myself, and my fellow-Autistic people, that’s all I wanted!!!
 
Greatshield17 said:
I just wanted advice on how to promote Autism Acceptance for my future children, myself, and my fellow-Autistic people, that’s all I wanted!!!
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Do you want advice though? Because you don’t seem keen to listen to what people have to say. It seems to me you are telling other people how to act to create the utopia you’ve envisioned for your hypothetical wife and children, but not being respectful about what your “fellow autistic people” have to say.
 
Bolletje said:
Do you want advice though? Because you don’t seem keen to listen to what people have to say. It seems to me you are telling other people how to act to create the utopia you’ve envisioned for your hypothetical wife and children, but not being respectful about what your “fellow autistic people” have to say.
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I'm not going to argue you this, if people cannot give me advice, then they should just go away and leave me alone! I'm not interested in being accused of anything, if you or anyone else accuses me of anything, well at this point I'll just tell you or them to go ahead and believe it and suffer the consequences of believing it, I'm done.

All I want is advice on how to promote Autism Acceptance that's it!
 
"...if people cannot give me advice, then they should just go away and leave me alone!"

It sounds like you're feeling a lot of stress.

The idea of "Autism Acceptance" is important to you, personally.
So much so that you feel wildly frustrated by comments about
the concept that are, from what I can see, kindly meant.

I know that I, for one, would be reluctant to offer any ideas,
since you might not consider the offerings useful advice.
 
tree said:
"...if people cannot give me advice, then they should just go away and leave me alone!"

It sounds like you're feeling a lot of stress.

The idea of "Autism Acceptance" is important to you, personally.
So much so that you feel wildly frustrated by comments about
the concept that are, from what I can see, kindly meant.

I know that I, for one, would be reluctant to offer any ideas,
since you might not consider the offerings useful advice.
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I can't do anything to advance Autism Acceptance, at least not until I get to Chile.

Frankly the closest I got to advice was @VictorR, which frankly (sorry to use the word again) just sounds like using bureaucracy to advance it; even if I agreed with it, I still couldn't do it myself.

I can't do anything. I'm stuck here.
 
It seems like living authentically, where ever one is,
would be a start toward advancing this cause that
is dear to you.
 
Bolletje said:
Why do you need to be in Chile for this? I’ve seen you mention this but I’m curious as to why.
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Several reasons, firstly, it's now almost time for me to leave, I'll be leaving this month if things go smoothly. Secondly, I don't have many social connections, I'm unemployed (one of the main reasons why I'm moving to Chile, to work on my family's farm), and most of my high school friends have drifted out of my life, and as a revert to the Catholic Faith, it would be awkward to re-connect with them anyways; I don't have many other friends, and it's been difficult to try and connect with the fellow-parishioners at my church for a variety of reasons, and many of them are quite elderly so, I don't know how opening up about being Autistic will work with them.

Not to mention, opening up about being Autistic after hiding it for so long is, in and of itself difficult and awkward, better to come up sooner with my fresh chart in Chile. Finally, there's the fact that I don't have the best relationship with my parents, perhaps things will go better around my extended family; although I have heard from my dad on several occasions that my cousins have their own, issues and attitudes.
 
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