Autism-Europe campaign for World Autism Awareness Day 2023

Autism-Europe is marking United Nations World Autism Awareness Day.

We celebrated on 2 April and during all of April.

In 2023 Autism-Europe is 40 year old.

We have a campaign about making society inclusive autistic people.

This campaign has 5 goals.

We want all people to understand autism better.

We want autistic people to have the right to make their own decisions.

Rights mean things you can and cannot do.

We want autistic people to always have the support they need.

We want that everything is accessible for autistic people.

Accessible means to understand and reach everything.

We want that autistic people are not treated badly because of their autism.

Autism-Europe also made a photo exhibition about autism at the European Parliament.

A photo exhibition is where artists show their pictures.

The European Parliament is an important political forum.

The photo exhibition opened on 28 March and it stayed for 1 week.

The photo exhibition showed 25 pictures from 10 artists.

The 25 pictures help people understand autism.

The pictures show life stories of autistic people.

You can see the 25 photos and read about the artists in our booklet.

Click here to see the photos.

You might need help clicking on this link above.

Roberta Metsola spoke at the exhibition.

Roberta Metsola is the president of the European Parliament.

Autism-Europe also held a conference at the European Parliament.

The conference was hosted by Rosa Estarás.

Rosa Estarás is a Member of the European Parliament.

Peter Vermeulen spoke at the conference.

Peter is a researcher.

Peter spoke about neuro-harmony.

Neuro-harmony means autistic people can bring many good things to society.

Vincent Grimaldi de Puget also spoke at the conference.

Vincent is an autistic manager.

Vincent talked about the value of autistic people at work.

Maria Pindado also spoke at the conference.

Maria is from Autism Spain.

Maria said people do not know and do enough for autism in Spain.

Zsuzsanna Szilvasy also spoke at the conference.

Zsuzsanna is Vice President of Autism-Europe.

Zsuzsanna talked about what Autism Europe does for the rights of autistic people.

Autism-Europe thanks everyone for supporting our campaign.

You can find more information on out homepage.