TS Eliot was right — April is the cruelest month. Autism Awareness Month can be an anxious, or at least facepalm-inducing time for many autistic folks, myself included. Whether it’s harebrained celebrities endorsing Autism Speaks or President Trump lighting it up blue at the White House, non-autistic people are ready to shout how very aware they are.
With that in mind, here are 5 cringe-worthy autism awareness products for sale this April. These are all real things for sale on the internet. Really.
5. This shirt isn’t even blue.
4. Nothing says “love” like what could easily be interpreted as a violent threat by someone very literal. Like say, an autistic person.
3. This really doesn’t seem like an appropriate place to put a child’s hand print.
2. This comes in several different versions with several different family members, just in case you have a niece, nephew, or daughter with autism and want everyone who sees your skimpy man thong to know it.
- This is the perfect flag to hang outside your home if you want to use puns and a hip, sunglasses-wearing cat to threaten to get rid of an entire group of people.
Share your worst autism awareness products in the comments.
Why do NT’s have to be like this?
Chuff knows.
Autistics are seen as being the ‘mental defectives’ by many non-autistics, and yet they come up with this bollocks.
It’s unbelievably stupid.
Because they can’t stand what they don’t understand.
Saw loads of variants of this one the other day. I mean, what is this even *saying*?
https://www.spreadshirt.com/screw+autism+hoodies-A12105585
At least buy me dinner or a couple drinks first! Jeeze~!
Perhaps its just screw you people with Autism ???
In which cases it’s a T with discrimination!
Wow thats pretty tactless.. what does that even mean.. are you attacking autistic people or threatening sexual assault..
Do some research about acceptable autism awareness before you try sell crap that undermines a whole group of people.
So bad! Thanks for the laughs!
Best Laugh In years!
There’s a shirt recently floating around FB. One says Aunt and niece best friends for life fight against autism. Of course you can pick what type of relationship the two are. My issue is fight against autism. Like autism is some kind of disease that is a hard fight. It’s not. Autism maybe a different disorder, I’ve had it lucky with my kid. I embrace it because it’s his world. I don’t treat him too different then I would if he wasn’t on the spectrum. Fight against it is wrong in my eyes.
https://www.orchidshirts.com/campaigns/type/shirt/sort/createdAt/page/3/stores/autism/au541?retailProductSlug=A39E342B02A4F6-51AA92AEA32B-GS0-TC0-BLK
To me it just seems weird telling strangers ANY of this! yeah… and the ‘fight’ thing..
http://www.cafepress.com/+look_beyond_2_autism_son_oval_car_magnet,1268557661
They just get worse…
http://www.cafepress.com/mf/44783346/aspergers-traits-3-copy_sticker?productId=1025809225
A-S-P-E-R-G-E-R-S
And WORSE!!!
I’ve long said, Autism Speaks is to autistic people as PETA is to domesticated animals. The flag and the yellow shirt fit that narrative.
Yes! I’ve said exactly the same so many times- yet FB friends constantly share things from both..:-/
Considering that most autistic women have been raped, I hate the underwear.
great content