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08 Jul 2011, 6:29 pm

So, from what I've seen of Autism Speaks and ASAN is while they claim to want to "help" (a relatively loose and subjective concept amongst their critics) those afflicted with autism, they don't actually encourage them to work for and/or being involved within those organizations. (which might seem ironic, but isn't all that surprising) I was wondering if the ACLU might be any better, or at least more accepting?



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08 Jul 2011, 8:20 pm

I think the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network might be better than the ACLU. The ACLU is still great, but ASAN is run by autistics, for autistics.


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09 Jul 2011, 9:21 am

I don't think afflicted is a very good word to use in organization dealing with advocacy.



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09 Jul 2011, 1:01 pm

ASAN is only for certain kinds of advocates and their advocacy at times has been very counter productive and politically backfires.


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10 Jul 2011, 8:15 am

ci wrote:
ASAN is only for certain kinds of advocates and their advocacy at times has been very counter productive and politically backfires.


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10 Jul 2011, 11:33 am

Lately no. It's been 7-days a week. It will be like so for a few more weeks but I do not spend the entire day working.


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11 Jul 2011, 3:53 pm

Okay, the reason I was asking is because I live in Los Angeles, and as far as resources/advocacy for adults with autism goes, there is next-to-NOTHING available from all the searching I've done. For example, the only "social skills" learning program (UCLA Semel Institute PEERS program) I could find has an age cut-off of 24. (I'm a few years older, and I doubt I could do enough begging/pleading for an most-likely bureaucratic organization to make an exception for me)

I attend a large public university, and while my campus had an "autism awareness" campaign last spring (in conjunction with "Autism Speaks") and while some people got involved I can't help but wonder if it was for extremely superficial reasons (specifically, there was some fundraising contest for "Autism Speaks" going on awhile back, which probably just people's love of competition) Again, I think most people got involved just to pad their future resumes/grad school applications - these people would probably run from or ostracize a person who came up to them and admitted they were autistic.

I would like to get involved and do something, which is why I asked about the ACLU. It would be nice to do something on my own, but I am only one person, and I cannot (especially as one with Asperger's) get something off the ground by myself.



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11 Jul 2011, 8:27 pm

North Los Angeles County Regional Center
www.dds.ca.gov/rc/rc378.cfm

South Central Los Angeles Regional Center
www.dds.ca.gov/rc/rc374.cfm


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12 Jul 2011, 7:34 am

Bat_For_Lashes wrote:
I would like to get involved and do something, which is why I asked about the ACLU. It would be nice to do something on my own, but I am only one person, and I cannot (especially as one with Asperger's) get something off the ground by myself.
ASAN has a chapter in Los Angeles:
http://www.meetup.com/ASANLA/
http://www.autisticadvocacy.org/

I encourage you to join them.


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