What is so bad about Autism Speaks?

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I don't have a problem with a cure, so long as it's post-natal.. to be honest, cure, or no cure, I'd at least like the choice...

that being said, I've heard they have a really thin skin, and have harrassed and sued people who disagree with them. I don't need that kind of tsuris...

Hmmm, can you rewrite that so I understand it? I'm not trying to be mean, but I want to hear your opinion without being confused.

They as in Autism Speaks?
I agree with you there pakled Choice is one of the best things in society

How quickly you think you know what I am thinking or where I am going. Are you an Aspie at all to have such theory of mind?

Merle

WilsonFisk - I can't speak for anyone else, but when you first asked Zarathustra that question it reeked of "If you haven't got a job, get one you lazy so and so"! I thought that was rude above everything else, when you consider that a lot of members here don't have jobs because they CAN'T work (for various reasons) - because of their difference, plus maybe a few additional issues.

Now I want to address this question to everyone on this thread who said that they would like a cure.

Why?

There's nothing honest about it, take your treacherous tongue elsewhere.

That term "state leeches" is an interesting one.

Even if people are posting a lot, well, people don't work 24 hours a day. They could very well be posting when they aren't working. A high post count does not necessarily= a "state leech".

(Time to starve the Troll guys [and girlz]). I'd be interested to know what you all think of the "Big Brother" thread in the "Autism in the News" forum on Autism Speaks board.

Don’t misconstrue the context in which I used that term. I was simply stating that state dependent folk are probably more liable to misinterpret a comment to an opinion that embraces such a term.

I have made no comment on whether a high post count “= a state leach” but you have.



That’s quite insulting. I ask an honest question and am accused of being a troll. If you don’t like the question for whatever reason then you have the right to not answer, which you have done. End of story. I realise the question might be interpreted as me implying something about state benefits, which in my posts since I have tried to clarify.
Jeez, it’s really surprising how easily people can misinterpret what you’re saying. Story of my life .

Here's my honest opinion. And if anyone tries to flame me, I'm not about to argue back as is much too early right now.

I support what Autism Speaks is doing. I think it'd be great if they found a cure for autism. If you guys don't want to take the cure, that's fine. No one is making you. But there are people out there who would love it. Since I'm diagnosed with NVLD rather than being on the autistic spectrum, I guess I don't have anything to worry about. However, for a lot of you on the spectrum, I just have three words: get over it. It's not like they're going to come hunt you down and force you to choose between being cured or getting killed. So if you don't like it, at least try to stop making such a big deal out of it.

I think that a cure would be a step back to the Holocaust. If they were to find a cure, than we would all be forced to take it. I also don't care for the videos that 'Autism Speaks' use. They're an insult to most of us, and they're especially an insult to me. A five year old had his diaper changed, after a second accident. Big deal! Who says that he won't grow up to be a productive member of society? I wear Depends and I'm looking for a job!

Well, I've just always had a yearning to do a lot of things that my AS completely cripples me from doing. Especially things that require fine motor skills. I've always been really interested in extreme sports, dirt biking, skate boarding, bmx, etc. I get hurt way too often when I do things like that, I'm just not made for it. So I find it impossible to even work on my motor skills when I'm so afraid of screwing up and getting really hurt (always do).

I like to talk. I like to debate. I like to relate. But I can't find anyone to do that with. Would be nice to be a little less awkward.

My ability to focus only on narrow interests makes it hard for me to concentrate on anything else. I'm afraid to go back to school, though I really want to.

I just feel like there are many more things I have the desire to do but can't, more than I worry about losing my attention to detail or ability to memorize music in great detail, etc.

I know that people can be unique and intelligent, even weirdo's, while still being NT. So I don't really fear becoming some socialite wannabe prom queen or something. I just want to be better able to fulfill all these desires I have to do great things.

you protest the same things you yourself do. That is called hypocrisy. We don't misunderstand you, we understand you perfectly.
Perhaps others do to, hence it is the 'story of your life'.

Merle

This is getting quite tiresome now. What do you mean "protest the same things you yourself do" because I don't understand how it applies to anything I've said.

Autism Speaks primary goal is to advocate an obligatory "cure" for all people with autism...

they dont want autistics to exist..

DOWN WITH AUTISM SPEAKS!! !

*pitch fork*

like sands through the hourglass, such is the 'story of your life. . . '

Merle