autism is a neuro-developmental condition that affects many things, from social interactions to processing sensory input. autistic people’s brains work differently than the brains of people who don’t have autism. autism is a lifelong, genetic disability, but that doesn’t mean it needs to be cured! we can help autistic people by including and accommodating them instead of trying to fix them. around 2-3% of people are autistic, so you probably know someone on the autism spectrum.

SawyerDrawsThings wrote:

I like that! it's simple and to the point, so easy to understand!

Rey_venclaw wrote:

here’s the first paragraph of “what is autism”. ilex is working on a paragraph about how the spectrum works and what that means and doesn’t mean

autism is a neuro-developmental condition that affects many things, from social interactions to processing sensory input. autistic people’s brains work differently than the brains of people who don’t have autism. autism is a lifelong, genetic disability, but that doesn’t mean it needs to be cured! we can help autistic people by including and accommodating them instead of trying to fix them. around 2-3% of people are autistic, so you probably know someone on the autism spectrum.

corleonex wrote:

-Squiggle wrote:

yeah, so would you be able to make a project (or just link an image or whatever) with the colour palette, so people who want to draw our own profile picture can use those same colours in our art?
and you should go ahead and draw matching profile pictures with people's OCs if they want one, just be mindful that probably not everyone will want to take part in matching cuz there's a bunch of random different people here
/nf

yeah ofc!!! for anyone who wants them to be drawn just send me a project or pic of ur oc lol

Rey_venclaw wrote:

i was actually intentionally trying to mix up the language because last year an annoying number of people were complaining about it. similar to saying both awareness and acceptance, i was thinking if we say everything, less people will complain and say we said something wrong. but idk that might be not great, trying to cater to everyone when people are going to dislike us no matter what we do.

Rey_venclaw wrote:

i was actually intentionally trying to mix up the language because last year an annoying number of people were complaining about it. similar to saying both awareness and acceptance, i was thinking if we say everything, less people will complain and say we said something wrong. but idk that might be not great, trying to cater to everyone when people are going to dislike us no matter what we do.

_Dromaeosauridae_ wrote:

English | Russian | French | Any other language?

Welcome to the Autism Acceptance\Awareness Studio! (We can change this if we decide on something
else, also should I add a 2024 here?) With this studio we hope to explain about misconceptions about
autism, raise support and awareness, and help people understand people with autism better. You don't
have to be autistic to join, and feel free to ask the managers questions!

【 TABLE OF CONTENTS 】
- Introduction
- What Autism Is
- History Of Autism Month
- Theme (autism and identity)
- Ways To Take Part In Autism Month
- Rules And guidelines
- How To Become A Curator
- How To add A Project If You're Not A Curator/What Projects To Add If You Are A Curator
- Manager Intros
- Conclusion

(What do you guys think about having a table of contents? Also if we do end up using one, we can always switch around the contents in what ever order it actually ends up being in. Does anyone have any other Ideas for the intro or something they think I should take out?)

_Dromaeosauridae_ wrote:

Welcome to the Autism Acceptance\Awareness Studio! (We can change this if we decide on something
else, also should I add a 2024 here?)

Rey_venclaw wrote:

also because there are people who prefer saying they’re autistic, people who prefer saying they have autism, and people who prefer saying they’re on the autism spectrum, it’s also potentially more inclusive to have all three in the paragraph.
and also in like, standard good writing, you’re supposed to vary phrasing if you say the same thing essentially multiple times, it makes it easier to read, so there’s another potential benefit of including the different terms.
but if someone here is adamant about only using identify first language i’m cool with that too.

Rey_venclaw wrote:

technically the slash being the other way ( / instead of \ ) is correct and also i believe the title has the words awareness and acceptance in the opposite order? so we might want to change that but we could also leave it as is.

Rey_venclaw wrote:

and i think awareness and then acceptance for three reasons

1. that’s what we did last year
2. you can’t accept something without being aware of it first
3. it was called autism awareness month before it was called autism acceptance month