Starbucks and Autism Speaks

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Now Autism Speaks has ads on the Starbucks coffee cups:

If the early intervention is education/ couciling based in order to help the person adapt, I'm for that. If the intervention is based on chelation therapy and other quackery I am fully opposed. -- Autism Speaks IMOP seems to be searching for a 'cure', so not so good.

Cool.

Wonder if they got the number right?

No way of ever finding an accurate number really is there.

I think they should call that business..."Fourbucks"...as you cannot leave the store without spending at least four bucks!

Yep, seen that one before, though i usually go to "mom and pop" coffee shops, mostly for philosophical reasons.

i don't go to starbucks for practical reasons (the coffee sucks).

that, too. i forget what they call the "coffe concentrate - just add water" but i like real coffee more

I don't buy coffee anymore anyway, so it won't matter to me at all. But out of all the things Autism Speaks has said, that's got to be one of their least offensive statements. I'm all for early intervention, I think it can do nothing but good things for kids.

Amen... Their coffee is over-roasted and overrated and has one other not so pleasant effect on me...

And I think Autism Speaks statistics are over-roasted and overstated.

Well, I find nothing wrong with that particular message since it doesn't ask for funding for a "cure" (which ironically involves eugenics).

Early detection of autism helps, if and only if the parents then do things right instead of panicking. My parents did everything right even though they didn't realize I had Asperger's Syndrome until I was diagnosed 2 years ago at the age of 16. So I guess I was very fortunate, raising an autisic child requires a different plan then a Neruotypical child would. My parents just so happen to be exceptionally intelligent at parenting, and not everyone's that lucky, some need to be learn.

Oh, and I don't go to starbucks at all for 3 reasons.
1. I live in a bit of a Starbucks "dead zone" so I'd have to travel a good 12+ miles to get to the nearest one.
2. There's a coffee shop in my hometown with much more reasonable prices (effectively preventing starbucks from moving in)
3. I don't drink coffee, I prefer to wake myself up in the morning with an alarm clock and sheer willpower.

Cafe L'Aut Topic

I wonder if they have 'roll up the rim to win'? I will check with my Tim Horton's to see if they are thinking about anything to do with Autism Speaks or its equivalent here in Canada.

I am uncertain as to the effect of this. Are coffee cups recycled in the US?
What is the agenda?

Clouds in my coffee?

It's a good idea if it makes some people recognise their child has Autism.

Alex, I love that cup! I love it! I'm happy about all of this awareness and that people are waking up to Autism. So, the next time many of us parents are out there in public and our children are stimming or over-stimulated, when we tell people, "They're Autistic," at least they'll have a frame of reference.

It's a new day for Autism.

I confess, Dude, that I have mixed feelings about the "awareness" that I am encountering. It is great to have people understand when a child has a melt-down in public, that is a very positive thing, but I found it so unnerving when a friend of mine, whose son is 3, was telling me how terrified toddler parents are about Autism. The awareness is feeding fear in parents more than hope, and that is a very negative thing. We really need to be careful HOW awareness is promoted, because fear bears very heavy costs.

Did you read Alex's speech from last weekend, the last few paragraphs where he spoke about policies of hope v. policies of fear? That really struke a chord with me. Too much of this awareness has been built on fear.

These cups are such a dishonest presentation of the issues. The "1 in 150" statistic is repeated constantly, yet no definition of the varied presentations of "autism" is provided. That's not progress so much as a stigmatization of autism.

Yick, Starbucks.

That is all.

Revolting coffee and crappy multinationalism = not my cup of tea (scuse the pun!)