Post #951183
2026-04-02 12:56 UTC
I saw that a usually decent Russian website wrote that today is "The World Day of Spreading Information About the Problem of Autism" (Всемирный день распространения информации о проблеме аутизма).
At first, I was angry, because we are not a problem, and that website should know it.
But then I checked the United Nations' official translation of the day's name, and found a bunch of oddities.
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@aharoni@wikis.world 2026-04-02 12:58
So the English name is "World Autism Awareness Day". This is less awful than the Russian name "the problem of autism", although many #ActuallyAutistic people suggest changing "awareness" in the English name to "acceptance" or "inclusion". https://www.un.org/en/observances/autism-day