(For High Definition version add this: &fmt=18 to the end of the URL) Autism has a wider context - siblings, carers, school, community - and they shape EACH other. Equality is a TWO WAY STREET. Siblings are shaped by the world around them and in turn can facilitate each other's development or hinder it. I had an older brother who liked me until his first childhood friend asked 'what's wrong with your sister, is she one of them 'spastics' (you will notice the changed expression and a slide where he has his fingers and legs crossed - a ritual non-autistic kids did to avoid catching what 'germ' they imagined the other had). A brother, 7 years younger, by contrast felt his 10 year old sister who could play like a 3 year old, was the best sister in the world. But non-autistic siblings are shaped by carers, schools, communities and their dignity and development deserves understanding in its own right. When autistics sarcastically and cynically use reverse-prejudice to distance themselves from the non-autistic world, then WE isolate, we discriminate and there are no excuses for adding harm in an already mixed up world.

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