Ep 47: Beyond Autism Awareness...Shifting to Autism Acceptance
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What is the difference between autism awareness and autism acceptance?
What's up everyone and welcome to Making the Shift.
We're an SLP couple from California with three boys and a passion for finding better ways to support autistic kids.
I'm Chris. You might know me as Speech Dude. I'm a neurodivergent high school SLP and the creator of the Dynamic Assessment of Social Emotional Learning and I specialize in crafting neurodiversity affirming IEPs through my online course.
And I'm Jessie, a sensory integration trained SLP, owner of a top-rated clinic in Los Angeles, and the creator of the Inside Out sensory communication programs for parents and therapists. Join us weekly to learn neurodiversity-affirming ways to support social-emotional development and regulation in autistic kids.
Are you ready to make the shift? what's up everyone we are joining you live from new york no actually two things there that weren't true the first thing is i'm not in new york i'm in california we've experienced a lot of rain here this year the second thing is is this is a solo show jesse's not with me so when i said we're it's Me, myself, and I. This is going to be a fun episode. There's going to be a lot of gold in this episode. Now, recently, we had St. Patrick's Day. And for those of you that might have celebrated that day, you know that St. Patrick's Day is one of those holidays where... You try to find where the leprechaun's at, where the rainbow's at, and get to the end so you can get the pot of gold, right?
Now, I didn't find the pot of gold, so it looks like I'm not retiring. However, if you didn't get the pot of gold either, that's okay, because guess what? This live show here is going to be providing you with all sorts of gold nuggets. You're just going to love it. I'm taking several concepts, and I'm shortening them down into a short episode with just great stuff. We're going to keep it upbeat. We're going to keep it fun, and we're going to keep it valuable. I promise you're going to love this one. You know, with that being said, before we dive right in, I want to say that, you know, we had the baby fairly recently. So I have a one month old baby. Little Teddy G has been doing great. For those of you that are asking how the delivery went and the follow up, you know, it was actually my back still feeling pretty good.
My body's feeling all right. You know, so I made it through.
How did the autism awareness campaign originate and what were its goals?
jesse's doing fine she's great baby's great um we're working on the new sleep schedule so um which which basically means there isn't one that's how that goes um so we uh i what i wanted to do for this episode is i really wanted to talk about um some concepts that we've known over the years some key things that we've heard what they mean kind kind of talk about the history of them and what we need to know. In April, there's this big thing that's a push across the globe about autism awareness, autism acceptance. And I wanted to talk about the two differences there, kind of where we were at historically and where we want to go when we move forward and just provide information and knowledge. That's what it's all about.
So Let's start off with the autism awareness campaign. Where did that start from? Where was the drive for autism awareness and what was it all about? Now, I started in public education as a teacher, a former special ed teacher, now a speech pathologist. Now, we would get these big campaigns that were all about autism awareness, right? It was like... here you go, make sure that you put this bumper sticker, autism awareness. And it was like a puzzle piece, light it up blue, things like that. So awareness basically comes from the idea of the existence of autism, right? It was like saying, hey, autism is a thing and I want you to be aware of it. And the thing that people, the criticism with just awareness is that it would focus on
the negative aspects of autism and it would frame the language around autism in a negative way. It was all deficits based on the medical model type language, right? So it's been going on since the early 60s. And so... When it was about autism awareness, it was basically saying, hey, we're going to be aware.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the difference between autism awareness and autism acceptance?
0:08–2:44
2
How did the autism awareness campaign originate and what were its goals?
2:44–5:41
3
Why does awareness‑only messaging reinforce stigma and negative stereotypes?
5:41–7:56
4
How does autism acceptance improve mental health and self‑esteem for autistic people?
7:56–10:05
5
What are the three practical ways to shift from awareness to acceptance?
10:05–12:27
6
Why is the puzzle piece symbol problematic and what replaces it?
12:27–14:26
7
How does the infinity symbol represent neurodiversity and autistic strengths?
14:26–16:35
8
What are the criticisms of the Light It Up Blue campaign and how can we move beyond it?
16:35–18:52
Speakers
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