to think it’s OK to raise awareness for other causes during Pride month?

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My daughter has Tourette’s.

15th May to 14th June is Tourette’s awareness month with 7th June International Tourette’s Awareness Day and during that time I’ve posted a fair amount of stuff on Facebook about Tourette’s.

I only really use FB to keep in touch with friends and family and don’t usually share much in the way of campaign/awareness/political type stuff but Tourette’s is pretty close to my heart and, still, we come across so much misunderstanding and ignorance about the condition - even from family and friends who get to see it close up - so I do share/post educational stuff I come across online from time to time.

I’ve had a fair amount of grief from a couple of friends - it’s Pride month so I shouldn’t be posting about other campaigns, I’m hi-jacking Pride month, if I post stuff about Tourette’s I should also post stuff about Pride, called me homophobic and that I should be ashamed of myself.

AIBU to think we all have our causes that are close to our hearts and if I want to post about them on my own FB page, that’s perfectly fine?

These people are ridiculous and don't sound like very good friends. I would block and delete them, and post whatever you want OP! The entire month of June Pride is everywhere, doesn't mean that's all anyone has to focus on.

YANBU OP, your friends are insensitive, intolerant dicks.

Of course you're entitled to post this. Everyone has different causes that are close to their hearts and thank goodness for that. Or only one cause woukd ever receive any publicity.
I'd block someone who called me offensive names like that, or criticised me in such a manner.

Yanbu. So much intolerance in the name of let’s all be kind. Are there no overlaps in the Venn diagram of Tourette’s and LGBT?

My dd learnt this lesson the horrible way too. After being very supportive of friends who posted about black lives matters and LGBT issues and re-tweeting their posts it was noticeable that none of them supported her during Autism Awareness week. One even told her that being autistic gave her much more "privilege" than being black or mixed race or LGBT.

Please please please tell me they posted about Pride on 7 June so you can reply "Actually Jane, I'm glad you emailed as I was very hurt you posted about Pride on 7 June which is International Tourette’s Awareness Day. This is a day very close to my heart and if you were going to post about Pride on that day you should have mentioned Tourettes too."

They are of course being ridiculous.

YANBU your friends are ridiculous!

Why does pride get a whole month? What if 12 other causes each wanted a whole month too, how would that work?

Oh wow, how incredibly helpful of them to mark themselves out as utter idiots so that you can remove them from your life.

As someone from the LBGT community, you have my permission to post whatever the fuck you want, whenever you want to. Not that you need anyone's permission of course.

@SoMuchForSummerLove

My daughter also has Tourette's, and Pride Month can get in the bin since it's become entirely about trans people and men in drag reading 'bedtime stories' to kids in my local Waterstones.

Can't have a single LGBT thread on here without Transphobic comments. How incredibly sad.

Other causes overlap too. These 'friends' sound obnoxious.

YANBU at all. Motor Neurone Disease Awareness day is 21st June.

I'm doing a charity event (wearing MNDA orange, white and blue) and will be sharing all sorts of information on the day. If one person complains that it's diminishing Pride month I'll point out how much of a fuckwit they're being because MND doesn't give a shit how you identify or who you're attracted to and block them.

Reasonably certain Tourettes also doesn't discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or the latest identity fashion.

This week is also Cervical Cancer awareness week, genuinely not seeing how any of these three things diminishes pride activities.

There's so many illnesses, conditions, celebrations etc it would be impossible for all them to have their own unique day, even it was just a day for each.

They are being ridiculous. It's possible to care for more than one thing at a time.

(I mean... This time last year we were clapping for the NHS... In Pride month! It's Armed Forces Day in June... It's D Day anniversary... Next year will be the Jubilee... That's before we get onto the lesser understood stuff like Tourettres.)

@TheChild

These people are ridiculous and don't sound like very good friends. I would block and delete them, and post whatever you want OP! The entire month of June Pride is everywhere, doesn't mean that's all anyone has to focus on.

True. This is what a business has posted about pride month….look who they are focusing on

YANBU. They sound like idiots. I’m part of the LGBT community and I roll my eyes at rubbish like this. Carry on posting stuff that’s close to your heart

Well, Tourettes month started before Pride month, so by that logic they are encroaching on Tourettes month and all pride posts should contain something with Tourette’s.

There are more than 12 causes and so if each cause gets it’s own month, who decides which cause trumps another?

Thank you!

It just feels like yet another way of telling people with disabilities to sit down and be quiet

Having spent the last year being told that my DD shouldn’t leave the house/go to school/get on a bus/etc if she can’t wear a mask, it’s totally rubbed me up the wrong way.

I’ve unfriended them now but it is quite hurtful. They’ve seen my daughter’s struggles and still behave like arseholes

It's the fact that the LGB bit is being erased which I find sad, personally.

One even told her that being autistic gave her much more "privilege" than being black or mixed race or LGBT.

Yes, I got “but at least DD feels like she belongs in her own body”

Yes, the body that she has no control over the movements she makes or the words she says.

The body that injures itself during tic attacks and shouts out offensive stuff that she doesn’t mean

I don’t know whether I want to punch someone or burst into tears.

@alloalloallo

One even told her that being autistic gave her much more "privilege" than being black or mixed race or LGBT.

Yes, I got “but at least DD feels like she belongs in her own body”

Yes, the body that she has no control over the movements she makes or the words she says.

The body that injures itself during tic attacks and shouts out offensive stuff that she doesn’t mean

I don’t know whether I want to punch someone or burst into tears.

I totally hear you.

No. Must genuflect to Pride. Nothing else counts.

I do like how women get one day - International Women's Day - and no one says anything about it being hijacked by TRAs.

Once this is sorted, I'll start thinking about Pride Month.

I'm sorry your friends are arseholes.