Whats with all the Autism Speaks hate.

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I want to see one PUBLIC video or statement from autism speaks that says there are people with high functioning autism and there are many people with autism that lead producitve happy lives and don't need to be fixed or cured.

I have never seen them agknowledge high functioning autism and accepting them. Having it said in a mission statement and acting on it are two different things.

I have 2 points that are some what bi partison

1.autism speaks isnt in business to speak for high functioning verbals who can speak for themselves,that is what the ASAN does


2.However,autism speaks doesnt realy serve the needs of more disabled autistics either and i personaly believe both the autistic "cure/abortion" movement and the autistic "pride" movements are both rottenly corupt

This is a quote and the picture portraying a person on the spectrum, from their public website, that millions of people view to gain a better understanding of autism. The picture provided there portrays a young woman on the spectrum smiling, working at Home Depot, like any other young women might be doing in the US, with or without a diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder. This success story is not a picture that is going to motivate individuals to donate to those that are not this fortunate in life, however it is the broader portrayal of what it means to be on the spectrum, that you are suggesting that Autism Speaks does not publicly portray.

This is definitive evidence that Autism Speaks does portray individuals that are leading productive happy lives, that look like there is absolutely nothing wrong with their lives, from any observation that could be obtained from that portrayal. If one took this advertisement and put it in the New York Times, it would probably lead most people to believe it was an advertisement for home depot, without any regard to some type of disability the young woman was portrayed as having in the photo. Even in the PSA's, for children on the spectrum portrayed by Autism speaks, they are all now pictured as healthy, happy, children, that could not be distinguished from any other child in the general population. For all practical purposes for what children do at that age, they are also visually portrayed as happy productive children.



http://www.autismspeaks.org/what-autism

why cant people just accept that the political status quo is thoroughly corrupt and should be completeley disbanded and that both AS and ASAN are corupt organizations

Does Autism Speaks showcase geniuses?

Where ever there are human beings, one will find some that don't always take the best interests of all others in mind, it's too complex, and impossible to do even if one were to do their best to accomplish it. What we are left with is imperfect humans and their imperfect decisions and actions, as well as organizations private and public. All one can really hope to do is celebrate their strengths and attempt to tolerate what we perceive as their shortcomings, unless there is the real opportunity to change those perceived shortcomings. There is that ability both in the private and public world; one usual avenue for input with public or personal relations and another avenue for votes. The country is continuously changing and everything associated with it, including ASAN, and Autism Speaks. The changes are likely to be smaller, with smaller organizations, with limited funding and manpower. The worst possible outcome would be if the process were dissolved and no concerns of those less advantaged were brought the light of attention.

Genius is rare and based on an subjective assessment of a person's accomplishments and IQ; it is, in part, dependent on what the culture sees value in. That is not the type of judgement that a charitable organization would typically make, it is usually a judgement segments of society makes. Autism Speaks does not attempt an armchair analysis of whether or not those without a professional diagnosis considered geniuses now or in the past might or might not have an ASD. That is likely because Autism speaks, in part, is a science based organization, not one designed for armchair analysis.