I know that the election is tomorrow. I know that this article is last minute. But it is also my last chance to tell you what I don't talk about often and I need you to listen.

I have a lot to lose if Donald Trump wins this election and so do many of my friends and colleagues. I am a young woman who takes pride in the fact that I speak out consistently about the misogyny in this country and its ridiculous amount of sexual assault and harassment against women. I take pride in the fact that I have supported movements that advocate equality for other marginalized groups, such as #BlackLivesMatter. I take pride in being informed of environmental hazards such as the Dakota Access Pipeline and doing what I can from home to contribute to the protests. And I take pride in being the sister of someone with autism.

In case you don't already know, Donald Trump has spoken out against pretty much every single thing I've just listed; maybe not directly, but definitely in retrospect. He has encouraged sexual assault against women, as shown by the comments recently released where he says you can just "grab them by the p*ssy" and the countless number of women who have now spoken up about the fact that he has assaulted or harassed them. He has failed to disavow the Ku Klux Klan and claimed a judge was biased because "he's a Mexican." He tweeted in 2012 that "the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive." And he has become infamous for his mocking of New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski who was born with arthrogryposis.

Many people believe that taking away money from the disabled community will stop those who could be potentially faking injury from receiving permanent disability, but what they also fail to realize is that the majority of those who receive it are children and adults with conditions such as epilepsy, cerebral palsy, and yes, autism.

I've grown up my entire life watching people like Trump mock people like my brother because of something that they cannot control. I have seen my parents struggle to find the best schools for him and am now watching them figure out how they are going to pay for him for the rest of his life, something that most parents don't have to do. I have sat in anger as Trump honed his relationship with radio host Michael Savage, a man who said in 2008 that "nearly every child with autism is a brat who hasn't been told to cut that act out."

I fear what will happen to my brother, to my family, if Trump is our next president. I fear that he won't have access to the treatment that he needs and that he will face increased prejudice by those who don't understand him. I don't want to go through what so many other mothers did when they were told by doctors that nothing was wrong with their children, they just needed to discipline them more.

My brother has severe autism and, at age 17, does not use many words to communicate. He is smart and sweet, but very complicated. And he has taught me so much. And I fear others won't be able to get that opportunity to learn from someone with a disability because of their own bigoted beliefs. This is what I fear from a Trump presidency. I fear it will take us back to the days where talking about my brother's disability would feel like a punishable offense. I fear there will be a dangerous shift intolerance towards children and adults like my brother.

You can tell a lot about a person by how they treat those who need help and Trump's track record is less than acceptable. If Trump wins this election, he will undoubtedly continue to spread misinformation about developmental disabilities, misconceptions that I have spent the majority of my life fighting to dispel. (If you don't know what these misconceptions are, don't worry. He's tweeted about it many times.)

I urge you to think long and hard about what you check on that ballot. This is my final plea. Taking care of people in our country that, through no fault of their own, cannot care for themselves is an issue that goes beyond whether or not you are a Democrat or Republican. While you might not have anything to lose with a Trump presidency, many others do.