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Things Autistic People Need:

• Accessibility
• Fidget tools (cubes, spinners, tangles, chewelry, etc.) allowed in the work place
• Designated quiet areas at events
• Affordable diagnoses esp. for adults
• Better diagnoses for adults, trans and non-binary persons, female persons, and persons of color
• Living wage/affordable housing (since a good portion of us aren’t able to work 40hrs+/wk and government assistance isn’t always reliable)
• Affordable, good-textured clothing
• Alternate means of communication (ex: basics of sign language) widely taught
• End of functioning labels and “mental age”
• Therapy that is helpful and healthy and that isn’t legally considered torture

Things Autistic People Don’t Need

• A cure – from what we know, it’s most likely genetic
• Awareness – pretty much everybody knows autism exists

Fellow auties, feel free to add your own. Allistics (non-autistic persons) can reblog but please don’t add.