People, especially Canadians are getting into having ribbon Magnets on their car, like the pink ones for breast cancer, national colored ones for supporting our troops, ect.
My cousin is high functioning autisic, and his mother is into autism awarness campagnes. She was selling these Autism Awareness Ribbon Magnets:
She asked my mom if she wanted to buy one, my mom said 'sure! disease awareness is important'. My aunt then turned to me to buy one, but after what my mom just said, a fit of anger came over me, and I said "no, cancer is a disease, untreated it makes you sick and you can die"
My mother kept insisting autism as a illness and I countered by asking if she thought I was a disease because of my AS. She did not have much of a answer.
I didn't buy the magnet.
What do all of you think of these Autism awareness magnets? Before my mother's insult I wanted to buy one because to me 'awareness' means education, if people knew more about us, they would understand us more. Some people seem to think it means cure us.
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