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where to find an Autism Acceptance T Shirt
im sick and tied of people trying to end Autism so the only wany i can stop worrying about the cure is to get an Autism Acceptance Shirt and wear on it on occasions so people can learn to stop being ignorant about it and i am posting this question to Dragonflymagic
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Hon, you made a statement to me. But you didn't actually ask a question unless you meant the title. In case you are wondering if I think this is a good idea, sure it is. There aren't enough organizations in place to bring awareness and teach the general public about autism or many other such things i will soon list. So it may be hard to find an autism organization that has tees. But You can surf the web with a search under 'autism tee shirts' and come up with many many hits. I did. There are many creative people out there creating tee's of all sorts and earning a living doing so.
Here's but a few of the links. YOu can do a search for more:
www.cafepress.com/ autism t-shirts
www.spreadshirt.com/autism awareness t-shirts
theautismsite.greatergood.com
www.zazzle.com/autism tshirts
I have my own ideas about why there are so many more 'brain' related conditions in todays world than when I was a kid, but that's besides the point. However due to what I believe, I know that lots of these conditions people are being born with are not going away. In fact, I believe it will increase until close to half the population is like this so we better start now to learn. Society is vastly under-prepared to understand it or know how to accept it and support people with the many good and not so good conditions they are being born with.
My own husband is a highly functioning Autistic. So it isn't apparent to others that he does have this. But as close to him as I am, I can see and experience the times when his mind begins to fry due to not being able to take too much sensory input, something which one day he reacts to, and another he doesn't. So I have to be flexible, understand he's not being inconsistent, or treating me rudely, etc...
Not everyone in the world is going to come up against an autistic person. But there are many other conditions people have that guarantee each so called 'normal' person, lacking these conditions is going to run into many people with something or another, so theres a need to know how to understand, how to behave and respond.
For example, just on the ASD side of things, theres autism, aspergers syndrome (a HS friend of mine had that) and childhood disintegrative disorder. Something people have kept hidden if they had it but now coming out into the medical and science community is having Synesthesia, the ability to see letters and/or numbers in color. One can't turn it off, born that way and it creates hellish problems with learning to read or in math because info isn't processed the same way.
Then there's Tourette's syndrome. In the past year I have come across 3 or 4 such people in public places, like at the library (where no one tells them to hush up because thankfully there is some awareness of their condition. And at the grocery and at restaurants. There are likely few more I am not yet aware of. And then we have the harder to live with things, like clinical depression, mental disorders, dissociative disorders, and anxiety disorders, etc...
From hearing from people with disorders of all those mentioned, I have formed the belief that while all are hard to adjust to, learn how to find other ways to do the same things people without these abilities or situations do, those who suffer harder and hate their life seem to be the ones with mental illness, depression or dissociative disorders.
This is what today's world is made up of. this is the society of the future and anything that anyone does to bring more awareness and knowledge of how to interact with people with any of these conditions, is very much needed and there are not enough people trained to deal with the task, nor organizations to teach and train the general public. We are sadly far behind and still in the stage of not having enough knowledge on the doctors, scientists and teachers level for general public to be able to know any better either.
So keep in mind to channel what you feel positively. Use your frustration to not lash out in anger at people but to lovingly and patiently teach them and pass by those who can't or won't accept or argue with you, and move on those open to learning about it. Eventually, those in the know, will outnumber the few ignorant who try to cause trouble and that is what we aim for, same as we've been doing for sexual preferances and gender identification and before that for racial equality.
I am a good example of a so called 'normal person without these conditions' who just by living on this planet, have come in contact with almost all these conditions.
I've got family or relations with Autism, mental illness, and depression and aspergers. Had a girlfriend in HS with Aspergers. Have friends today who suffer anxiety disorders or depression. Have in public come across those with Tourettes, or mental illness of some kind. The only thing I have never experienced yet is someone I've met or personally know who has Synaethesia. But I am sure that day will also come. So I believe there is no hiding from Autism nor denying it, or any of the many other different conditions people have to deal with on a daily basis.
As with people who have disabilities, instead of seeing them as disabled, they are simply differently-abled. Meaning all can achieve and live the same kind of life others do, just that they have different ways of being able to do the same, sometimes with great difficulties or with help of medications, but it doesn't mean they are any less a human being who wants love and to be accepted in this world just like you and me. This is what needs to be taught, to learn to understand, love and support the 'differently abled' people of this world.
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