With respect to your good intent, as an autistic adult with autistic children and grandchildren, these clickbaity awareness posts are infantilizing and offensive.
We would rather speak and be heard for ourselves than have people speak for us in this way.
I saw this many years ago, and am sorry I do not remember the author’s name. It was the inspiration of an autistic child, and is one of my favorite poems. The verse hangs on my refrigerator.
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“ is someone willing to post this…. That we know someone is always listening……” blah fucking blah!
We would rather speak and be heard for ourselves than have people speak for us in this way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h2AV6ZoMIE