Talk:World Autism Awareness Day

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Autism Flour Power Challenge
So I saw that this section was previous unsourced and I was going to added a citation needed template to it but another user User:86.31.162.140 had already gone ahead and removed it, however that revison it was undone by User:108.20.165.251. I did find this YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsSubJiFsC0 of a family doing the challenge but nothing else so far from looking at the first few results of a Google search. However I believe its a great idea to bring awareness to a challenge that bring awareness to such a great cause. If someone can find a good source like one of the official websites describing the challenge that would be great but until then the citation needed tag will have to remain in place. I hope everyone had a great autism awareness day yesterday :) --Have a great day :), Sanjev Rajaram (talk) 19:23, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Awareness vs Acceptance
Stumeg has changed the word "awareness" to "acceptance" in many places in this article. I do not have a problem with the philosophical issue that people need to do more than simply "be aware" of autism. Acceptance is more than Awareness. I am fine with that. Use "acceptance" in relevant contexts in preference to "awareness".

However, we should not be changing the name of a UN mandated day just because we don't like its title. No matter how much we wish that the UN had called it World Autism Acceptance Day, it is a falsehood to say they called it that. We are rewriting history to make it accord with our preferences. The UN call it "World Autism Awareness Day". If you want to reference groups of autistic people who criticise that concept, fine. There is scope for reporting the critical reception of a day about autism by people who are in fact autistic.

Unless someone has official UN documents to support a name change to "Acceptance" I will change all references to the day's official title to use the word "Awareness". Let's stick to facts, not wishes. IAKenny (talk) 09:03, 2 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Very well said. Thank you for this contribution. UnbiasedBrigade (talk) 12:01, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

I think both Awareness and Acceptance should be referenced in this entry. I agree we need to acknowledge it's origin but due to the fact that the change to "acceptance" is so widely used amongst the autistic community and their allies this change should also be noted. Queen-Bee4C (talk) 01:15, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Cleanup and identity-first language
I've cleaned up some phrasing in the opening paragraph. As part of this, I've updated some phrasing in the first paragraph to identity-first language, which tends to be preferred in the autistic community, especially by autistic individuals. (one writeup on this). Also, I've removed the ASD phrasing in the first paragraph because ASD is a DSM-5 term and much of the world does not use the DSM-5.

Also, I removed this sentence from a later paragraph, which had no references (the only previous references was deleted, and links to a deleted page that I cannot find an archive of), this claim itself was not easy to substantiate, and had some especially iffy phrasing to boot. "The day itself brings individual autism organizations together all around the world to aid in things like research, diagnoses, treatment, and acceptance for those with a developmental path affected by autism."

&mdash;siro&chi;o 10:39, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

"Disorder"?
The sentence, "In a 2015 Presidential Proclamation, President Obama highlighted some of the initiatives that the US government was taking to bring rights to those with autism and to bring awareness to the disorder.", is not reflective of the fact that neurodivergence is not necessarily a disease or a disorder that requires treatment. As someone who is on the spectrum, that is jarring to see, considering the strides that have been made to recognize the autism spectrum as different ways that people exist and function. Can we change "disorder" to "autism"? 98.151.249.222 (talk) 02:05, 2 April 2023 (UTC)