Varieties of Autism T-shirts
Jim’s I love someone with autism t-shirt is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what you can find on the web. A selection of some others, many from AutismWear:
- I’m not rude, hyper, shy, or bad! I have Autism! What’s your excuse?
- Autism University Stim Team
- It’s not a once a year thing. It’s an every day thing.
- Autism: The Silent Epidemic
- Autism is not a tragedy. Ignorance is the tragedy.
- Yes, my daughter has autism. No, she’s not like Rainman.
Gives new meaning to the notion of “wearing your heart on your sleeve.”
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8 opinions for Varieties of Autism T-shirts
jamie
Aug 25, 2006 at 1:15 pm
Stim Team…LOL!!! I’ve gotta get that one!
Kristina Chew, PhD
Aug 25, 2006 at 1:16 pm
There was another one too with something like “synchronated stimming” on it.
Laura Cottington
Aug 25, 2006 at 3:53 pm
I love those. I saw your last comment on previous post about not wanting to offend those “Ribbon” for/against folk. I know all the controversy around them, but what I do like is the awareness piece and educating others (I am a geek who has the magnet on my car specifically for that purpose, and when I am putting Sam into the car usually screaming and hitting me). I liked your Rainman one above. A friend of mine mentioned to me Friday that she saw a kid wearing a shirt the other day that said “Autistic and proud of it”. She was so offended, as if a parent would boast it, and wondered what my opinion was. Let’s just say our friendship is running very thin and beginning to look more like me putting closure on it soon.
Kristina Chew, PhD
Aug 25, 2006 at 6:34 pm
That kind of response makes one want to say, it is just a shirt!
We have the magnet on our car too—it’s actually gotten torn into a few sections so I have to “put the pieces of the puzzle ribbon” back together.
Jannalou
Aug 25, 2006 at 9:30 pm
I still love the one that SS wears some days - it says “I feel a TANTRUM coming on!” I don’t know where they got it, but it seriously rocks. :)
I was brainstorming possibilities for t-shirts I might start making (just out of my home, for fun) last week. I might post some of the possibilities at some point, either on my blog or my main web site. We’ll see. :)
Kristina Chew, PhD
Aug 25, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Would definitely like to see what you come up with……
Phil Schwarz
Aug 26, 2006 at 10:34 pm
Autism: The Non-Epidemic
We’ve always been here in more or less the same numbers — but not recognized as such for the most part, until the past decade or two.
The people claiming there is an epidemic seem to want to have their cake and eat it too. Their much-vaunted numero-du-jour (1 in 166) includes the *entire* spectrum — “autistic disorder”, “Asperger’s syndrome”, “PDD-NOS”, and all other varieties — yet they insist on comparing that number to incidence and prevalence numbers from the past for “autistic disorder” only.
So I think the “Silent Epidemic” t-shirt slogan, unlike the others listed above, does us all a disservice. It perpetuates ignorance in the form of disinformation and therefore fails to meet the test implied by the t-shirt slogan following it: Autism is not a tragedy. Ignorance is the tragedy.
Oh, I’m sure you’ll get howls of protest to the contrary. We who know better will for the most part have to allow the epidemic-mongers to “expend their spirit in a waste of shame”, and go on living our lives in the numbers we’ve always lived in. We don’t have all that much choice anyway: we are outgunned in resources and money and media power.
Christine Bailey
Oct 30, 2006 at 8:53 am
As a parent who is hoping these kind of T-shirts are going to ward-off horrible hurting comments made by others at a theme park were autistic child are given special treatment, I appreciate that they are available. I wonder what advice anyone else has for the day when people come up to you and ask you why can’t you control your child. I still haven’t come up with that answer, but these shirts just might be the closest thing I will have.
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