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autism spectrum in umbrella term something at the Commonwealth knows but doesn't really understand no two people will experience autism the same way however there is something autistic people have in common like we think differently reprocessing says differently you move differently we communicate differently we socialized differently we might need help with daily living not every autistic person will relate to those things and that is okay. The years meaning of trade autistic book as in one look or when way of being that the problematic representation from the media can cause the average person have options around autism this week you're hopefully wearing some new information and perspectives on autism I want to encourage you to continue to seek information and be part of making this world more inclusive for all TV with some history and knowledge about the symbols you might see or be familiar with that represent autism you may see the proposal piece a symbol before the origins of a symbol had star back in 1963 by the national autistic Society they represent how autism is a puzzling condition a disease or how autistic people have a missing piece to them they needed to be cured or that it's a mystery those negative associations with custom bull why is why a lot of autistic people tend to reject a simple including the color blue reason why a lot of people tend to reject the color blue is because it mainly associate people who are autistic but mainly male autistic people and has a misconception of how people think that only males are dudes can Hauppauge which is not true and that's why I'm also a lot autism people tend to avoid that I want to leave you with knowledge of a more positive simple that is now use which is call the infinity symbol which is a representation of near diversity and autistic acceptance and just remember as stated by the as a network I'll just people are in every community and as always been awesome people are people of color immigrants every part of religion every part of income level every part of the egg group autistic people are women queer trans autistic people on often many of these things all at once the communities we are part of and the ways that we are treated shaped the autism is like for us I'm near Tommy I'm parked service and wellness and Leadership and I have autism I am proud of my autism and is part of my identity and it makes me me thank you for watching and I'm glad and very happy if anyone decided to listen for your autism awareness week thank you

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