To you who don't understand autism, read this please. To start this off, I'd like to say please remix, share, etc. This needs to be spread wherever it can. You judge the people who fidget when they are happy, smile randomly, and act what you call "weird". Don't you understand? Can't you try to understand? I'm the older sister of an autistic brother, he is the most precious thing to me. From the beginning of his life people have always outcasted him. People always ignored him, and never played with him ever since he was a baby. They left him out because they thought he was "weird". Do they know to pain they caused him? The pain they caused my family? To the adults who cannot understand, do you think that an autistic person needs you staring at them all the time? Do you think they need you ignoring them? No. You're a GROWN man/woman, are you serious? You can't even try to be nice ? What's your problem? My brother has gone through SO MUCH just because people can't be patient. He's been "friends" with his computer since forever, just because no one wants to play with him. His first "friend" was his iPad. Throughout his entire life close to NO ONE has voluntarily talked to him, helped him, thought of him as their actual friend. No, he was always the "no one really cares about them" kid. He was always the "doesn't keep up with the trends so loser" kid. Are you joking? His battles everyday break my heart because I know it is so hard for him, and yet these people are so selfish they won't even talk to him. His PAIN EVERYDAY, his LONELINESS, does it not matter just because he isn't cool? Just because he's mischievous? You won't understand what pain he goes through, you never will, because you have never gone through it. YOU'VE never been outcasted you whole life, and if you have then does it feel nice? Then why do it to someone else who has an even more hard time doing basic things than you? Is it SO HARD for you to try and understand even a LITTLE an autistic person? Do they not really count as people to you? I hope you think back before you do this to someone you know. I'm not asking you to be friends with them, but I'm simply begging you to try and understand. It's not so hard. If you talked to that mischievous kid in your class, do you know how much happiness you can bring to their family? Let me tell you, when one person talked to my brother, I almost cried.And even when he talks to people online I am so happy that he found someone, even if online, that would actually like him for who he is. When he was talking to kid's at the library, me and my mom started crying, because THAT'S how much simply talking to him helped. Simply saying hi to him, simply treating him with respect, simply treating him as a person. It's a shame that I have to beg people to treat him as human, to simply RESPECT him.
I shouldn't have to beg YOU to respect them, should I?
