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3:23pm
July 17, 2014
There *are* things that autistic self advocates who have only met people who have reliable symbolic communication and/or can live without too much assistance don’t know.
And some parents of autistic folks who don’t use symbolic communication and need a lot of assistance know some of those things.
And that matters.
Absolutely.
See Distance and denial in the autistic community for the long version. (I am still writing a short version for people who can’t read long versions. I have trouble reading long versions myself. But seriously, that post is important, if you can make it through it.)
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