Autism Speaks - is it good or is it bad?

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How's Autism Awareness? Also....what's the name of the group that Toys R Us works with?

To be honest...half the messages about "solving the puzzle" just sound a bit shifty to me.

What puzzle? Oh you mean the one non-Autistic people don't understand, but the one Autistic people( including HFA) can understand just fine? You mean that one?

Wrong Planet is great, but for all his efforts, Alex has not picked up much money from the members.

He does not use the Marketing that Autism Speaks and PETA do. They have Professional Marketers, Alex only has Ethics.

The money to be had comes from the uneducated about Autism, most who are looking for a tax deduction, and in that game we rank with clubbing baby seals. Also, seals do not vote, or buy products.

Autism Speaks does wish there were other words. Consider that Autism also covers Broader Autism Phenotype, non disabled NTs with geek traits, many who would not work for Autism Speaks wages.

Asperger's and HFA often do better than those bland and boring NTs. Helping them get their third Doctorate is not much of a sales pitch.

So they focus on the Shock Value, and while I can spend many happy hours spinning the polished copper blades of my fan, they have to make it a horror for those who watch.

What brings in the money is getting the uneducated to chose which cause to make the check out to.

It comes down to something like, At least you can club baby seals, our company sells cleaning products, those Autistics paint on the wall with feces, that is the cause to support, not the little tards, but the parents who have to do the cleanup. One in 150 is a lot of a house cleaning demographic.

Media is another, we are seeking people with money, and the intelligence of an eleven year old. Being a leading doner to Autism Speaks exposes our product to a lot of that demographic.

They do hold gallas, with big name entertainment, it is a great chance to network.

So the target doner is Corporate, seals are not consumers, and those hairy pinkos are seal, whale, tree involved, so it is Political, and even if one could extirminate the autistics, it would be seen as a good thing.

So amoral people are raising money from amoral people, it's America.

Where the money goes seems to me Autistic, researchers, scientists, a bunch of geeks, nerds, eggheads, you know, the Bookish!

Autism Speaks is chartered for research. The main complaint I hear is they are not a club for autistics that directly supports the members. Their cry is, All that money could be spent on us!

The same has come up on Wrong Planet. Alex created a forum for all voices, yet some think it should be a Community, and they the natural leaders of said community. Their first act would be to silence all voices that do not agree with them.

A lot seem to think that some natural ability should put them on the Autism Speaks Board, that they should regulate ideas on the internet, because they say so.

I chose Scientific Research and Freedom of Speech.

Autism speaks disgusts me. I think that the way that the use of the term public information film for things like "Autism Everyday" is a misnomer. I feel that to say that saying Autism Speaks is a "autism advocacy organization" is like saying that Jack the Ripper is a activist for women's rights. I do not think that they will serve the interests of teenagers and adults with autism well.

http://www.autismspeaks.org/about_us.php is where they claim "Autism Speaks has grown into the nation's largest autism science and advocacy organization"

I might be misunderstanding their film but it seems like it is a hate film which is likely to incite hatred of autists by their parents. The moment where the mother explains how she considered killing herself plus her autistic child was unspeakable. I think any film maker with morals would have cut that moment out.

If I was a film maker and while interviewing someone I got footage like that, then out of human decency and for moral reasons I would edit it out and not release that part of the interview to the outside world.

The inventor wrote that autism speaks is one of the few bodies which fund research on autism, but what about the medical research council in the UK and Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation. Both of these bodies have funded SBC at Cambridge. Does anyone know anything about the latter body.

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Diagnosed under the DSM5 rules with autism spectrum disorder, under DSM4 psychologist said would have been AS (299.80) but I suspect that I am somewhere between 299.80 and 299.00 (Autism) under DSM4.

I'll simply say, I'm fine with who I am as a person so, there is no need for me to take some cure per se.Anyways, AutiismSpeaks can about whatever they wish to cause, I'm not going to alter myself..

I think I'm convinced now that Autism Speaks doesn't advocate for us, especially after learning that the president of the so-called "orginization" makes $600,000 a year! Where does all that money go?

TBH, I don't know much about Autism Speaks, but, from what I have read on here, they sound like they are comprised of stressed out parents of autistic kids, people who struggle raising autistic children, and they speak from that point of view. They don't represent the child with autism, just the parent, and not every parent. Just the stressed out ones who are having trouble coping.

From what I have seen of one organisation who are there to address the needs of autistic adults, they are not much better. people with AS told me that one particular organisation ignored the adults with AS trying to contact them for help- the organisation was really set up for the parents of the AS adult, the focus being the financial stress of having an autistic adult still at home.

From what I gather, it seems that Autism Speaks is trying to see to it we become "normal"; the unfortunate thing is many on here do "drink the Kool Aid" and want that life, but at the same time it's basically a group trying to do the exact same thing that standardized schooling aims for; and I'm in no favor of either...