Zee Goerzen’s “Why Autism Awareness Month should be changed to Autism Acceptance Month” makes the case that because the term Autism Awareness is in their view connected to harmful medicalist movements like Autism Speaks, it should be changed to Autism Acceptance in order to correct this view. However, the word Awareness is a neutral concept, because to be aware of something is a distanced activity. It’s what you’re Aware of that connects you to a category, but it is not inherent to the definition of Awareness. Autism Speaks has Awareness in autism, and its Awareness stems from ableist empiricism, but that does not mean that changing the name of Autism Awareness Month to Autism Acceptance Month will, in fact, remove this Awareness or flip that Awareness to an anti-Awareness.
Goerzen as Opportunist
Goerzen as Opportunist
Goerzen as Opportunist
Zee Goerzen’s “Why Autism Awareness Month should be changed to Autism Acceptance Month” makes the case that because the term Autism Awareness is in their view connected to harmful medicalist movements like Autism Speaks, it should be changed to Autism Acceptance in order to correct this view. However, the word Awareness is a neutral concept, because to be aware of something is a distanced activity. It’s what you’re Aware of that connects you to a category, but it is not inherent to the definition of Awareness. Autism Speaks has Awareness in autism, and its Awareness stems from ableist empiricism, but that does not mean that changing the name of Autism Awareness Month to Autism Acceptance Month will, in fact, remove this Awareness or flip that Awareness to an anti-Awareness.