Thoughtful opinion piece by Todd Drezner of Brooklyn, N.Y.
I'm against Autism Awareness Month. Don't get me wrong — as the father of an autistic son and the director of the documentary "Loving Lampposts: Living Autistic" (tinyurl.com/3dlrgnb), I'm eager for people to learn about and understand autism.
But as I made my film, I met a lot of autistic adults who don't think about autism in the same way the rest of the world perceives it. There's a huge obsession with everything about autistic children today, and amid this clamor, autistic adults are too often ignored. I was interested in what they had to say about themselves.
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