Privateers Alliance for Autism Acceptance
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Privateers Alliance for Autism Acceptance

This month, PA will be going gold for Autism Acceptance! We will also be raising money for THREE charities WORLDWIDE. 

Autism Acceptance is a cause near and dear to our hearts. Many of the members of PA either know someone with autism, or have a form of it themselves. This event, down to the art done, has been put together with help from our autism community in PA, The logo was hand drawn by our own RoboticsChick who has high functioning autism.

We have chosen three worldwide charities to support this year! All of the money raised will be divided evenly between these charities. You can click on each logo to check out the good things they do for the autism community


Join us this month as we try to help better the lives of people with autism, celebrate the people who live with it, and know that autism isn't always BAD just DIFFERENT.

How can YOU help?

  •  Donate 
  • Join this campaign by creating your own fundraiser and getting the word out! YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A MEMBER OF PRIVATEERS ALLIANCE TO DO THIS!! We welcome all gaming organizations, or individuals, to join us!
  • Buy something from our Autism Acceptance Collection at the PA Store
  • Educate yourself and others on what autism is from the people who live with it every day

Thank you for all of your support!

What is Autism?

About Autism

Autism is a neurological variation that occurs in about one percent of the population and is classified as a developmental disability. Although it may be more common than previously thought, it is not a new condition and exists in all parts of the world, in both children and adults of all ages. The terms “Autistic” and “autism spectrum” often are used to refer inclusively to people who have an official diagnosis on the autism spectrum or who self-identify with the Autistic community. While all Autistics are as unique as any other human beings, they share some characteristics typical of autism in common.

1. Different sensory experiences. For example, heightened sensitivity to light, difficulty interpreting internal physical sensations, hearing loud sounds as soft and soft sounds as loud, or synesthesia.

2. Non-standard ways of learning and approaching problem solving. For example, learning “difficult” tasks (e.g. calculus) before “simple” tasks (e.g. addition), difficulty with “executive functions,” or being simultaneously gifted at tasks requiring fluid intelligence and intellectually disabled at tasks requiring verbal skills.

3. Deeply focused thinking and passionate interests in specific subjects. “Narrow but deep,” these “special interests” could be anything from mathematics to ballet, from doorknobs to physics, and from politics to bits of shiny paper.

4. Atypical, sometimes repetitive, movement. This includes “stereotyped” and “self-stimulatory” behavior such as rocking or flapping, and also the difficulties with motor skills and motor planning associated with apraxia or dyspraxia.

5. Need for consistency, routine, and order. For example, holidays may be experienced more with anxiety than pleasure, as they mean time off from school and the disruption of the usual order of things. People on the autistic spectrum may take great pleasure in organizing and arranging items.

6. Difficulties in understanding and expressing language as used in typical communication, both verbal and non-verbal. This may manifest similarly to semantic-pragmatic language disorder. It’s often because a young child does not seem to be developing language that a parent first seeks to have a child evaluated. As adults, people with an autism spectrum diagnosis often continue to struggle to use language to explain their emotions and internal state, and to articulate concepts (which is not to say they do not experience and understand these).

7. Difficulties in understanding and expressing typical social interaction. For example, preferring parallel interaction, having delayed responses to social stimulus, or behaving in an “inappropriate” manner to the norms of a given social context (for example, not saying “hi” immediately after another person says “hi”).

Autism is diagnosed based on observation by a diagnostician or team of diagnosticians (e.g. neuropsychologist, psychologist, psychiatrist, licensed clinical social worker, etc.).

Sourced from ASAN


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