Jenny McCarthy's hashtag #EndAutismNow

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https://twitter.com/hashtag/endautismnow?src=hash

If she was expecting a positive reaction she got the opposite

"End autism now" does not mean "Exterminate autistic people".

It means "Relieve people of their autistic symptoms".

Of course, I realize that other people don't see it that way.

I’m glad it got a negative response. If autistic traits are affecting someone negatively, then they absolutely have the right to seek treatment, but ending autism entirely implies ending the positives as well. Many autistic people can’t separate their autism from themselves, since it literally shapes their neurology, so ending autism, in my opinion, implies ending autistic people. Clearly no one would kill autistic people like in the other hateful campaigns described, but they would try to prevent them from being born, which isn’t much better. It’s on the level of gay conversion therapy.

My mom and I talked about this today. I'm glad the hashtag has been taken over by autistic people speaking out against it. People ought to accept us for who we are, instead of trying to change us.

The way people responded negatively was smart, but now we have yet another celebrity that is more unnecessarily hounded and in trouble with the public view because of making a damn tweet of something they probably should've kept private to begin with.

Jenny McCarthy has an autistic son, Evan. She has the mistaken belief that the condition of her son was a result of the vaccinations he received when he was a child. She was an actress, model, television host, author, screenwriter and a nude model for Playboy magazine and was later named their Playmate of the Year. She has used her celebrity status to spread the idea that vaccines caused autism. It is interesting that she describes her school years as an "outcast" at her school and has stated she was repeatedly bullied by classmates. Those are traits that many Aspies are all too familiar with. Since Autism is predominantly genetic. She may have passed some of these genetic traits down to her child.

McCarthy's claims that vaccines cause autism are not supported by any medical evidence, and the original paper by Andrew Wakefield that formed the basis for the claims was based on manipulated data and fraudulent research.

Like others on this thread have said, #EndAutismNow, did not imply killing those that have autism. It was a bad choice of hashtags on her part. But many Aspies take words quite literally. That is one of our traits.

How about I create a counter banner EndStupidityNow, yes cause some people seemingly can't realize that despite the many difficulties a person faces within their entire lifetime along with family members,spouses, employees, etc a person can still be of a valuable asset to society as a whole.

But many of us see autism as part of who we are and feel that it brings positives as well as negatives. If you got rid of the autism, we would be completely different people. Non-autistic people shouldn't try to speak for us and say that our disability should be cured when many of us don't want a cure.

Good, I'm glad to see there are still some people in the world that are actually intelligent and told her off.

If there was a safe, economical way to relieve the symptoms of autism, there would be fewer people why-ning on about "Why can't I make friends?", "Why can't I get a date?", "Why can't I get a job?", "Why do people pick on me?", "Why all of this sensory overload?", "Why are NTs so mean?", and so forth.