{"id":947,"date":"2007-05-04T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2007\/05\/talking-to-autism-speaks\/"},"modified":"2007-05-04T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T13:35:00","slug":"talking-to-autism-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/talking-to-autism-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking to Autism Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been asked to be on the Autism Speaks Subcommittee on Adolescent and Young Adult Issues.  From what it sounds like it covers, I believe this is a good starting point for me in the world of adult autism advocacy.  I will learn more about what this particular subcommittee does, at a meeting on Tuesday, but the person who first reached out to me about this is someone I really trust and regard very highly.  It is my hope that if I do work with Autism Speaks, that I can help make them understand about neurodiversity and the need to have autistic people on their boards and subcommittees.  The Autism Speaks tagline is:  &#8220;Autism Speaks, It&#8217;s Time We Listen.&#8221;  I already know that people with autism &#8220;speak&#8221; in their own ways, it&#8217;s just that many of us still <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">don&#8217;t know how<\/span> to listen, but I believe we want to.  I hope that their &#8220;we&#8221; includes the organization itself.  That won&#8217;t stop me from joining; I have confidence that I can make a difference in some people&#8217;s minds in this regard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been asked to be on the Autism Speaks Subcommittee on Adolescent and Young Adult Issues. From what it sounds like it covers, I believe this is a good starting point for me in the world of adult autism advocacy. I will learn more about what this particular subcommittee does, at a meeting on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-fh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}