Let us never shy away from difficult self questioning

What we give up, what we gain

We must reflect on what we normalize in the public sphere

I don’t want to be Snuffleupagus anymore

The damage wrought by our contrived despair or detached indifference

An invitation to be a better collective

We are mired in exclusionary practices

We are fundamentally altered by what we observe

Autistic people are expected to be productive cogs in a wheel that turns for the abled.

Why should the price of staying connected to all of you be autism erasure?