April is Autism Acceptance Month, and this year’s theme is "Celebrating Differences."

At the time of writing, a news story had just come out in the UK about parents being offered the choice to have school photos that either included all the children in a class or a photo that didn't include children with special educational needs. Rightly, this has produced an outpouring of disgust; as I write, news channels are filled with parents sharing their and their children’s experiences of exclusion. One mother of an autistic daughter shared how they were once forced to leave a bus because of her daughter’s stimming, a humming sound that indicated that her daughter was content.

These shocking recent stories highlight the amount of ignorance, nastiness, and exclusionary behaviour that parents of autistic children, autistic adults, and........

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