Please be advised before reporting, commenting, submitting:

This is not a political advocacy community in of itself, and we do wish to aggregate and actively encourage content from our subscribers while providing information and advice to others, and occasionally giving a research body permission to seek participants. Differentiating ourselves is important, because /r/Autism is already a de facto authority in advocacy, and specializes in it quite successfully. Hats off to them!

The nature of this subreddit is subject to change over time and that depends solely on the content posted and the community's response to it. So long as it doesn't override the basics on the sidebar nor exploit under-age children for views on YouTube, then it tends to be worthy space to bounce off some ideas and maybe to test the strength of our convictions and perceptions of things as we have known them to be in the process.

While some content you may disagree with fundamentally, and may even be considered controversial, we still must suspend our disbelief at some point if we wish to try and aggregate creative AND critical content provided for by individuals who identify as autistic or who are inclined to comment on similar topics. So long as they the submitter are actively engaging in honest exchanges and having an open dialogue about their content from subscribers who comment, then it is a valid post so long as it is following our proverbial goal posts, which tend to be moved around depending on how clever some of you can be in interpreting them!

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As subscribers and submitters, understand how important you both are to a successful platform. Thank You for your continued interest in our subreddit and those of you in good faith who actively report posts that don't meet our standards.

Again, content should provide an engaging exchange to merit the post, actively seeking it out from our subscribers. If our readership is to grow, then we need to cultivate our own je ne sais quoi as a place to exchange ideas and develop the individual. Self-promotion for promotion sake is not the standard we've established due to many submitters in the past self-promoting their poor YouTube content, showcasing the acts of daily life with their autistic child of which there are plenty already let's just be honest.

Self-advocating the merit of something one has created as a submitter is not the same thing as shameless self-promotion, because the latter is a one-sided interaction, which is discouraged, while the former is encouraged encouraged because it demonstrates proper social etiquette online. Many people use forums like this to develop skills while also gaining confidence in communicating and sharing ideas, thoughts, and feelings with others.

It's important to remain civil, but it is also your responsibility to express yourself in relation to the content posted, too! Which is why we as a community disqualified self-promo-for-promo-sake content.

Remember to keep it PG-13 (parental guidance-13).

Until next time, Excelsior!

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All submissions that aren't in written form, which require the user to navigate off-site or are image-based, need to establish a dialogue in the comment section or risk removal. See provided example below:

The difference between advocate and promote is that advocate is (label) to plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly while promote is to raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.

As a submitter who self-describes oneself as autistic, please speak a bit about the work you're doing, and about how your unique perspective informs you regarding the choices you take as an autistic individual in your work or craft. The purpose is to illustrate what autistic people are doing in the world so as to inspire others!