About Us

WACS was created in January 2019 to host a group of autistic refugees and their supporters. Back then, all autistic participants were expelled from a caregiver-controlled chat group because of a personal disagreement between a caregiver and an autistic, which divided that chat group.

Eric sought to turn this crisis into an opportunity by setting up this network with autistic autism advocate Wesley. Thus, this network has much personal meaning for the autistic community – as a space created for autistic people by autistic people with autistic people.

As the number of groups and members grew in WACS, the administrators decided to split into independent networks to serve different segments of the autism community better. Eric retained the original WACS branding and changed its focus to support caregivers. Wesley branched off into the Standing In The Gap (SITG) network.