What’s Autism Charlie Brown? Explaining Autism Speaks to My Dad

“Why is Autism Speaks Bad?”

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth-Mathew 5:5

By meek Jesus is refusing to people who are powerless or have power taken away by them from a culture of bullying, aggression, and stigma of who they are as a person. He says there is woe for the rich and people who laugh at the powerless in the same passage. Autism Speaks is nothing more than a group of billionaires and wealthy parents who are no different from faith healers and snake oilers and profit off of an invisible bottle of air that says Autism Cure rather than addressing the problem of ableism and stigma in education, media, jobs, and in places that are supposed to heal the pain and damage done to a culture of stigma and trauma related to mental health.

Artist-Arthur Rackham
Burgermeister Misterberger is an example of the Gemulichkite stereotype in play even after the Greatist Generation's rebuilding and freeing of Germany during and after the Second World War.
Me, My Dad, and a Large Mouth Bass I caught at Cedar Lake up north in Mio, Michigan, May 2019. Had to let her go because it was too early to keep Brandy the Bass.

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Tuba player, creator of Struwwelkinder and The Flying Circus Orchestra

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Christina Bishop

Tuba player, creator of Struwwelkinder and The Flying Circus Orchestra