![]() For some kids though, that’s a recipe for disappointment at best and life-threatening at worst.ĭepending on the type of food allergy or intolerance and its severity, the presence of some types of treats can contaminate their entire bag and make all of their treats no longer safe for them to consume or even be around. Many of us haphazardly dump a variety of candy into a container and hand them out to every little monster that knocks on the door. In case you’re new to the whole color-coded pumpkin experience, the Teal Pumpkin Project was an idea to draw attention to the difficulties children with severe food allergies and intertolances face during Halloween. It came through with such force that within 2 years of my first hearing about the Blue Pumpkin idea, I hardly ever heard anything about the teal pumpkin project ever again, other than a few vague statements along the lines of “hey, wasn’t that a thing once?” The Teal Pumpkin: A Meaningful Project This privilege has allowed them to completely bulldoze over the Teal Pumpkin Project. ![]() They are also the same types of people who worked to overturn the FDA ban on electric shock at the Judge Rotenberg Center. Many of them are anti-vaxxers, aggressively pro-ABA, and have been known to respond poorly when ABA is criticized, as well as invalidate autistic voices and experiences. They are the “Autism Moms™,” the martyr parents. This is a different community, one that appeals heavily to other privileged communities, such as upper-middle class white people. I say “their community” to specifically separate it from actual autistics and other communities who support autistic voices. By blowing up “autism awareness” and turning blue puzzle pieces into well-known commodities, Autism Speaks has created a level of privilege for their community. Talking over other voicesĪs the “blue brigade” has a history of doing, the project also talks over another community: Food allergies. It’s a problematic decision, and why you will never see anyone in the autistic community Light It Up Blue™ in April. Aside from that statistical fallacy, it also completely ignores autistics who are other genders, and subscribes to an antiquated idea of colors somehow representing genitalia– not to mention the idiotic idea that said genitalia should dictate a person’s gender. My existence is not a tragedy.Īutism Speaks declared that blue should be the color representing autism because “most autistics are boys.” I put that in quotes because it’s an extremely questionable statistic for reasons that are a whole other post. ![]() Dark blue handwriting states: Boycott Autism Speaks. That should be reason enough to reject the blue idea, but I’d still like to point out that the reason for the color choice is even worse.Īlt text: A light blue background with a dark blue puzzle piece with a crack through it. In case you’re new to all of this, Autism Speaks is widely considered a hate group among the autistic community and those who support them. The short version is that it was an idea created and popularized by Autism Speaks. The Origins of the Blueīlue as the representative color for autism has a long, troubling history. If this seems like a charming idea to you though, welcome to Inappropriate Behavior, and allow me to elucidate. If you’re familiar with this blog, or at least in the same mindset, this probably instantly feels icky. Thus, when they arrive at your door, and perhaps don’t say “trick-or-treat” or aren’t wearing a costume, they have this little blue signal to you as to why. If you’re not familiar, the idea is that autistic children should be given blue pumpkins or buckets to carry when trick-or-treating, so they can be identified as autistic when they hold it up to accept your candy. Halloween season is upon us, so let’s talk about that blue pumpkin thing that’s going around.
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