I want to wish everyone out there a Happy Father's Day. I
am grateful to have had my dad support, respect and give helpful advice for my
various ways of life and ambitions, such as my bottle cap and ethnic musical
instrument collecting, my Buddhist practice, my arts, writing, former
filmmaking desire, art, repurposing, blogging, Disability Studies, and mostly
my advoacy for the autistic people. I would also like to make note of various
autistic fathers and fathers of autistic children in general. Many have worked
and strived hard to find the right schools, as with my parents. Their are
several who have done so through divorce, unemployment, disease, and such, as I
have seen on Facebook and elsewhere. They have also practiced and promoted
autism acceptance, rights, inclusion, and led various groups such as the
Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, the Autism Network International, the Autism
National Committee, the Thinking Person's Guide to Autism, and the Autism
Society of America, while also challenging the abuses and excesses of various
movements such as Autism Speaks, Applied Behavior Analysis, the Judge Rotenberg
Center, and various Autism "Awareness" movements. Happy Father's Day.
Autism Acceptance
isn't just a series of acts. It's a lifestyle.
-myself
and Don't forget for the people who have special needs and Autism is one of the forms of a dissability.
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