Autism Speaks

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What's the deal with this organization? Why does nearly everyone seem to hate it? I really don't know so fill me in the best you can. Thanks.

Because some of us don't consider ourselves diseased, I gather.

Autism Speaks contends that autism has a physical cause. Of course it has physical cause. That should be obvious to anyone who doesn't believe in magic. However, Autism Speaks deduces that therefore it is a detrimental difference that should be removed/corrected for our own benefit as well as society's.

Maybe some semblance of society, but not one I'd root for, that's for sure.

I know I'm not diseased. Just...disabled. I think of a disease as if you are physically ill but a disability if your...not there mentally. Sometimes, I even wonder strongly if it's a made up disability so the medical community can line their pockets. If so, and if hell exists, there will be a special place for the people behind making that up.

So, basically, they want to change us. Right?

Yes they want to change us but their is more to it than that they want to eradicate autism here is what Suzanne Wright a co-founder and current board member had to say about autism
"We’re now playing catch-up as we try to stem the tide and ultimately eradicate autism for the sake of future generations. If we continue our current trajectory, we’ll get there in my lifetime."

If someone said the exact same thing exept instead of autism they used the word Jew, people would be very pissed.

Also Autism Speaks has a history of bullying autistic people who stand up to them, even threatening legal action for perfect legal actions such as make parody sites and anti-Autism Speaks T-Shirts.

Or get rid of us.

A mental disability is physical. Neurons aren't imaginary, and you need neurons to imagine. Imagine that.

I get that autism is truly a disability for many. For others, it seems more like a transability, if I may coin the term:

trans⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty
-noun
lack or sacrifice of a common ability or aptitude in exchange for, or in favor of, uncommon ability or aptitude

I'm all for a method for making an autist/aspie neurotypical if they so wish, but preventing autism from happening at all is to me no different from eliminating any other possibly beneficial trait, from the Rh-ve blood group to OCD to albinism. At least until someone convinces me that I'd be just as intellectual without AS, or that something equally or more enabling without detrimental side-effects could be administered to take its place.

Since we don't have smart pills, cerebral communocyte injections, or other +1 Int items available, I'm inclined to stick with AS.

Please, please PLEASE do not rely on this forum as your sole source of information about Autism Speaks. This forum is so heavily biased against the organization (and against "NTs" in general) that literally no impartiality can be found here.
I, for one, am a supporter of Autism Speaks and feel they have a lot to offer in the way of information, resources and support.

agrees.

I don't hate it like others here. But I do think Autism Speaks is terribly misguided.
It's too negative, and negativity is destructive. Furthermore, they seem determined not to acknowledge good things that come from autism. Also they never show you functioning adults or mild cases. They just show children having meltdowns.
What scares me most is the idea of prenatal scans.
Their desire to bring about prenatal scans could turn to genocide via selective abortion. That already happened to Down's Syndrome.

Those being...?

and this is the disagreement that proves the rule. If we were so heavily biased against the organization, how is it you can write anything you wish to about it?

you say no impartiality can be found here, and you are proving it by saying WP is impartial, which makes your comments impartial, as well.

what you probably mean is there is no neutrality here. Which is also incorrect. It is just difficult to find the neutrality and the inpartiality because the majority against Autism Speaks are so vocal (or plentiful in their writing)

Merle

I can- as long as it goes along with the status quo of this forum: Autism Speaks is bad.



Did I say WP is impartial? My bad. I meant very much the opposite.



I guess you're better at deciphering what I mean than I am.

I have just finished reading a book by Tony Attwood, while I would not call him St Tony he has been able to write a good book which has opened my eyes to some aspects of who I am. These aspects had been hiding in plain sight, I noticed that when Tony discussed the topic of "crime and aspies" that he commented on how Hans Asperger upset the Nazis by making public statements opposing the elimination of future generations of aspies, he also said that aspie's minds are likely to be of great use to the Germany. This was becuase he thought that a loss of aspies would hinder the german code breaking effort.

So Dr Hans Aspergers viewed us aspies as something useful which should be tolerated and kept. I would like to know how many things which society takes for granted were invented by auties and aspies, would anyone like to post a list ?

They are pushing for the eradication of our people that is genocide hun and given the chance they would do it. I don't get it how can you support those who mistreat us, misrepresent us and seek our annihilation?



P.S. People don't the video Autism Every Day that video is sick, and disgusting.

well, I hope I can help you figure out what you really mean.

If you are saying that WP has a specific mind set, I call bull, because we are only who posts here. If you are saying that a lot of folks post here that don't post on Autism Speaks website ( and I don't even know if they have one) I really wouldn't know. If you are saying the owner of the site has a specific attitude about Autism Speaks, then you would be correct.
But WP allows anyone to say anything they want to about Autism Speaks. Even you.

Merle