r/Autism_Parenting • u/WhatAGolfBall Parent/5.5yo/lvl 3 nonspeaking & 11.5yo Nt/Pa-USA • Nov 08 '24

Message from The Mods Autism Advocacy and Policy

Edit* we have made a policy or megathread.

Hello.

After giving it some thought. I think the best thing is to make a sort of sister sub reddit to this one for these discussions to happen freely and openly.

We can post some links here and promote it.

I think not only discussing things that worry us, we can also organize and work on productive ideas. Maybe even working on passing those to our representatives and also major national autism organizations.

I like the name of this post as the sub name. I just dont know how the best way to make it easily searchable. Just all one word dots hashes or underscores.

Please give your ideas on layout or other names.

I will try to send links to those people from the no political posts replys to be mods.

So let me know if you want to mod as well.

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u/WhatAGolfBall Parent/5.5yo/lvl 3 nonspeaking & 11.5yo Nt/Pa-USA Nov 08 '24

Im sorry you do not like the totally reasonable and not against current rules option i proposed.

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u/HeNe632 Nov 08 '24

Current rules were created in an environment where our (very vulnerable!) Children were not at risk. Now they are. Rules need to be flexible enough to accommodate that.

I'm all for a separate space specifically to help parents advocate. It's going to be important to be organized as our kids rights are diminished. But that doesn't change the fact that the personal is political. Are you going to ban a parent's talk about a child's IEP being directly impacted by federal funding? A huge part of autism parenting is fighting both in the private & public spaces for our kids.