pamelaislee:

Like sure, Atypical (the new show on netflix) looks stereotypical and shitty but that doesn’t mean A$ was involved in its production. If you’re going to criticize media about minority groups then you need to have your facts straight and provide sources.

A$ has endorsed it on their Twitter

this article details how:

• No autistic people are on the cast.
• The only people involved in assuring accuracy were professors and researchers, (who are often affiliated with A$).
• no autistic people were involved in the making of this show.

THIS is why you should not support it. Allistic people should not support this show because of these reasons, NOT because A$ helped make it. We should be focused on the erasure of autistic from media depicting autistic people. We should be focused on academia being the trusted source on autistic people/life instead of ACTUAL autistic people. Those are the problems we need to be focused on combating instead of just saying “big bad Autism $peaks helped make this and that’s the only problem here”. A$ helps to create these problems and allows them to continue. That’s what we should be concerned with in regards to A$.

I encourage allistic people to reblog this.