Autistic community, I don’t know what Autism Speaks plans to do this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. I don’t know if it will cancel events and depend on online donations. So in this year of 2020, let’s turn the internet #REDinstead. Let’s show the world what autistic people think of Autism Speaks. Let’s raise our voices. This may be a time where people are quiet enough to listen.

Don't ever hesitate. Reblog this. TUMBLR RULE. When you see it, REBLOG IT.

Please use these. You’re not a burden if you do, they’re there to help you if you let them. 

I am not a straight people.

Reblog if you are also not a straight people.

Reblog if you think Pansexuals are valid

I just…want to see something

ATTENTION EVERYONE LOOKING TO RECEIVE FTM TOP SURGERY FROM DR HARTLEY IN BOULDER, CO

Myself, along with CSU LGBT Resource Center Director Aaric Guerriero can confirm that multiple students have been scammed by this doctor, who is changing the medical codes for the surgery post-op. This is resulting in $30,000 medical fees that should have been covered by insurances and were not agreed upon. He (Dr. Hartley) is taking advantage of the fight we have with the legal system to get covered by insurances and scamming trans individuals seeking care in the Colorado area. Please be safe and spread this information!!!

Guys seriously please spread this, we were almost affected by this. The front desk staff at his clinic in Boulder were so kind we had no idea. I saved up for so long to get this surgery I can’t imagine other guys loosing it all to this asshat

That’s Dr. Winfield Hartley of Boulder Plastic Surgery & IV Seasons Skin Care. Yelp link.

he puts up flys are places outside of Boulder, too

many lgbt youth groups ive been to have had his flyers outside or around the meeting area

please stay safe

I want one of those scenes in a dude bro film where “tomboy” chick has to wear a dress to go undercover or whatever, but instead of the guys drooling as she walks down the stairs, they’re like “k. U need to stop. Go put the cargo pants back on. You look super uncomfortable and awkward in that. Brutus, you go be the fake prostitute.”

I’m just imagining this super ripped guy called Brutus being like ‘YESSS!!! I’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE THE FAKE PROSTITUTE!! Now is my time to shine!!’

so I got inspired… and had to make a comic….

*wipes away a single tear* Yes.

IT IS BRUTUS’ DAY

Aces are LGBT+

Aces are LGBT+

Aces are LGBT+

Aces are LGBT+

Aces are LGBT+

Aces are LGBT+

Aces are LGBT+

This is potentially life saving information everyone should know.

No you guys this post helped me find my cat. He was missing for almost a month and I’ve had him for over 12 years. After seeing this I put his favorite blanket he always slept on outside hoping he would smell mine or his scent and he was back the next fucking day asleep on it.

When my cat got out, we called and called for him, and then, later that night, I remembered similar advice to this, and so put his little scratching pad, which he adores, on the front porch. Not even half an hour later, I heard a thump, opened the door, and there was his big butt, meowing at me.

Important and vital

I don’t care that I reblogged this today I’m reblogging it again

awwwww babies ;_; i hope everyone’s pets come home safe.

I thought this was well known…

no time for racist gays in 2018. no time for transmisogynistic gays in 2018. start this new year intersectional and with some empathy for people in the same boat as you or don’t start at all.

Straight™ Parents: Whatever sexuality you are, we’ll accept you

Straight™ Parents: *literally does everything to make their closeted child feel like anything other than being straight is weird or attention seeking*

Closeted LGBTQIAPN Kid: 

Dear non-autistic fans of the new Power Rangers 2017 reboot.

I am autistic, as is Billy. 

As we all know, Billy is the Blue Ranger. This may be an issue in April. Blue is the “awareness” color used by Autism Speaks, a charity that is offensive to a large portion of the autistic community.

Please do not associate Billy with the blue puzzle piece of Autism Speaks. Not in April, not ever.

Please do not create autism awareness “light it up blue” mood boards using the Blue Ranger. Not in April, not ever.

Do not buy any Power Rangers stuff if it has blue puzzle pieces or the Autism Speaks logo on it because that gives money to that organization.

Autism Speaks is an insult to autistic people everywhere and has done harm to the autistic community. 

Most of the autistic community encourages a boycott of Autism Speaks and any products that donate to it. 

* * * You can learn more here: http://butterflyinthewell.tumblr.com/antias

Autism Speaks being big and well-known doesn’t mean they’re good. (Just like PETA, the Susan B. Komen foundation and some branches of the American Red Cross are trash…google those names with the word controversy.) 

Autism Speaks gave platforms to people who expressed a desire to kill their autistic children. Their founder, Suzanne Wright,(who passed away recently) has referred to autistic people as “missing”, as if we aren’t really people, and compared us to people with Hansen’s disease (leprosy) who are “out of touch with time” in an appeal to the Vatican. This is very infantilizing language!

Autism Speaks exploits autistic people to get your money.

Autism Speaks only give 3% of their donations to autistic people while everything else is feeding their pockets, research (that is not helpful to us), advertising and marketing. So that means that you hand Autism Speaks 20 dollars…and after it’s all spent the autistic community gets 60 cents. 

Autism Speaks has stolen intellectual property from autistic people.

Autism Speaks doesn’t have any autistic people in representative or leadership roles, yet it claims to represent autistic people.

Autism Speaks has used fear mongering propaganda tactics to make you think autism is a horrible epidemic that is ruining lives.

Autism Speaks has never apologized for any of its negative rhetoric, propaganda, theft, silencing of autistic voices or causing much of the negative stigma that still affects autistic people to this day.

I will probably get a lot of reblogs telling me to shut up because that’s what Autism Speaks supporters do. Autism Speaks trains you to ignore autistic voices as “trolls” to further silence us.

Please listen to me, an autistic person.

Don’t insult the autistic community by associating Billy, the Blue Ranger, with “light it up blue”, autism awareness stuff, blue puzzle pieces or Autism Speaks.

In April, the autistic community goes #REDInstead. We wear red instead of blue to protest Autism Speaks’ negative rhetoric and to bring about acceptance rather than useless awareness. We’re taking back April and turning it into Autism Acceptance month. You can participate whether you’re autistic or not.

Awareness focuses on symptoms.

Acceptance focuses on personhood.

Jason, the Red Ranger, had it right when he became friends with Billy. 

Be a Jason to the Billy in your life by listening to autistic voices.

Thank you! <3

please stay.

Sportscaster Dale Hansen defends student wrestler Mack Beggs and takes a stand against transphobia

What you should and should NOT say when trying to support trans folks! See more resources about supporting trans and non-binary students! (Credit: Raffi Rex)