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Poster of Mustafa Çevik taupe letters on a black field read: This Neurodivergent Multiracial Adolescent is aware of his mother's race is aware of his autism and their ableism Deserves Respect Your Awareness if paving the road to hell Presume his competence #Tone it down Taupe ©Mustafa Nuri ÇEVIK and Kerima ÇEVIK Fiat justitia ruat caelum. Sometimes I use profanity when I communicate. This is going to be one of those occasions. If the three branches of the federal government united tomorrow and declared that henceforth Autism Awareness Month would be named Autism Acceptance Month throughout the nation it wouldn't mean shit to me. Maybe I would have been excited about the meaning of such a possibility four years ago. I'm not now. You see acceptance without representation is not acceptance. What I have seen is an insufficient amount of representation, objectification of intersected populations across the entire autism community, whether medical model or disability rights and ...

Kasap et derdinde, koyun can derdinde ( The butcher is concerned with meat, the sheep is concerned with survival )                                                                                    - Turkish Proverb Mustafa's well-worn backup AAC device, an iPad Mini, with TouchChat HD App. Most parents wanting iPads for AAC support don't know they actually need 2 iPads, one for backup in case the other is damaged, lost,  or stolen @Kerima Cevik "I've been trying to find a way to get him an iPad," she said to me, her voice cracking.  "I just know if we could afford to get him an iPad, you know, with one of those language programs, that they would have to teach him to use it to communicate in school." "I could fight for that until they do." "He's fifteen now." "All this ...