Head’s up everyone! Autism Speaks has begun reaching out to Autistic bloggers asking them to participate in their campaign on the 2nd. They are calling it “Autism Is” and are including a link to this set of “guidelines” on how to promote their campaign.
Key points from this document that Autism Speaks is distributing:
– It instructs the “influencers” (and keep in mind they are sending this to AUTISTIC influencers) that autism should be lower case and says that autism should be referred to as a disorder not a disease.
– Later in the document it refers to autism as a disease.
– It instructs people to only use blue gradient fonts
– it says they will be using the hashtag #autismis
– It orders participants to send Autism Speaks their analytics after the campaign.
– The blogger who received this media kit asked if it was intended for paid influencers, because of the bossy tone of the document. She was assured no, they are not paying the influencers. They’re just bossing them around for no reason.
– I went to the site autismis.org which they are using for this campaign – presumably to try to distance it from their much-maligned name – and it encourages autistic people to upload their stories to this campaign via Facebook and Instagram.…anyone up for a hashtag/website take over?
Please reblog to spread the word!
Wow, gross. Autism Speaks won’t apologize but wants us to fall down in gratitude it hasn’t earned? Grossss!
I betcha it’s trying to trick autistic people into thinking it’s changed when it hasn’t.
Don’t fall for it, followers! This is Autism Speaks trying to worm its way into stealing more of our voices and probably our intellectual property too.
Heads up! #AutismIs
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