Do You Like Autism Speaks?

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Roxas_XIII
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05 Sep 2008, 3:36 pm

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I got my very first piece of spam ever today. It was from Autism Speaks!

I had sent them an email telling them exactly how much I hated them and why, and they had the nerve to send me a piece of spam inviting me to some fundraising event! Grrr...

If they send you spam, send them a virus. That'll teach them...

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06 Sep 2008, 12:54 pm

Autism Speaks:

- Claim to speak for autism yet have nobody on the spectrum on their boards.
- Are not planning to find somebody on the spectrum to go on their boards.
- Play the pity card and patronise autistics.
- Treat autistics like tragedies or burdens instead of people.
- Claim that autistic people are NT people trapped in a shell.
- Sue anyone who launches even the slightest campaign against them.
- Fund for a cure that doesn't exist and isn't wanted by everyone instead of services that everyone would welcome.
- Aim all their material at parents, yet claim to speak for autistics.
- Don't listen to or address autistics full stop.
- Make videos that include people saying that they considered killing their autistics child and don't see the problem with this.

In short, no, I don't like them.

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17 Sep 2008, 4:14 pm

IpsoRandomo wrote:

In fact, most aspies spend their lives sitting at home unemployed.

If you've got the guts to make a statement like that, you'd better have evidence to back it up.

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17 Sep 2008, 4:32 pm

ASPowerations wrote:

IpsoRandomo wrote:

In fact, most aspies spend their lives sitting at home unemployed.

If you've got the guts to make a statement like that, you'd better have evidence to back it up.

being unemployed is really an irrelevant argument. There many social and cultural factors effecting people like us.

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17 Sep 2008, 4:35 pm

I am sick of the people, their claims, making policy decisions with out our involvement, not having an autistic person on their staff, claiming we are a burden to society, using science that does not have much scientific credibility, ignorance and waste of donations toward creating a cure when they could help many more by accomodating them. I could keep going, but I decided not to. Me very angry :evil:

I am going to start doing my own scientific studies of what can work for people the many people on the spectrum.

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17 Sep 2008, 4:48 pm

matsuiny2004 wrote:

I am going to start doing my own scientific studies of what can work for people the many people on the spectrum.

we need to start our own chity. built by aspies, fir aspies (and autistics)

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17 Sep 2008, 4:50 pm

No because us with HFA and severe sensory integration disorder... SOME OF US ENJOY OUR LIFE... so autism speaks can go screw themselves

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17 Sep 2008, 6:13 pm

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18 Sep 2008, 2:00 pm

IpsoRandomo wrote:

Triangular_Trees wrote:

IpsoRandomo wrote:

sinsboldly wrote:

IpsoRandomo wrote:

In fact, most aspies spend their lives sitting at home unemployed.

wow! how do you do that? I have supported myself since I was 17! If I sat around, I had no home!

so. . how do you get to do that?

Merle

Are you MOST aspies?

Last I checked, the unemployment rate for aspies was pretty damn high.

If that is true that you can surely provide evidence for your claim rather than attacking aspies who have and do support theirselves

Where did I attack self-supporting aspies? Do YOU have any evidence for that claim?

So much for aspies being more logical and rational, which is a load of BS.

BTW, the aspie employment rate is 12%: http://www.angelfire.com/amiga/aut/employment.html

That's an 88% unemployment rate!

There's one thing you've missed: people can still make money when unemployed, and they have more freedom, and they might even have their own business. I certainly don't like the idea of working for a greedy employer, or being told what to do by an incompetent manager.

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18 Sep 2008, 2:11 pm

j2xj2x wrote:

IpsoRandomo wrote:

Triangular_Trees wrote:

IpsoRandomo wrote:

sinsboldly wrote:

IpsoRandomo wrote:

In fact, most aspies spend their lives sitting at home unemployed.

wow! how do you do that? I have supported myself since I was 17! If I sat around, I had no home!

so. . how do you get to do that?

Merle

Are you MOST aspies?

Last I checked, the unemployment rate for aspies was pretty damn high.

If that is true that you can surely provide evidence for your claim rather than attacking aspies who have and do support theirselves

the employment rate for people with physical disabilities is even LOWER than that

Autism Speaks will NEVER speak for me

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18 Sep 2008, 2:50 pm

I hate Autism Speaks, because of the way that they portray people who are on the spectrum. I also hate the abuse that the parents display towards their children. Their idea of a cure is abortion and I think that their parents have watched Rainman one time too many. That's how they've learned to treat their kids the way that they do.

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