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Why Mental Health Awareness Month is failing Autistic people

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David Gray-Hammond
May 05, 2023
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month. The bitter irony that this comes immediately after the dreaded Autism Awareness Month/Autism Acceptance Month is not lost on me. After a month of fighting hard to be heard over the corporations who monetise our existence, May can feel quite offensive in its positioning of mental health.

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