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28 Apr 2015, 12:44 am

https://twitter.com/autismspeaks/status/592769139464351744

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Join us and @ToysRUs for a Twitter Chat tomorrow, April 28 at 2PM EST! Use #Toys4All to join the conversation!


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28 Apr 2015, 11:58 pm

We took it over

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Toys4all&src=typd

They tried to move it to #Toysforall, it did not work

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


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02 May 2015, 3:13 pm

OMG, that's fantastic you guys took it over! Just shows how easy it is to be a pro-autism activist on Twitter... Toys4All indeed... probably no toys for the autistic kids unless they look Mommy in the eye and say "I'm very sorry I flapped my hands today and embarrassed you"... but then, autistics are probably not seen as part of the "all". [/tangent]



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10 May 2015, 7:19 pm

Autism Speaks is dedicated to the goal of Autistics Silenced, so even the name is an utter hypocrisy, a tokenistic doublespeak wholly inconsistent with their paranoid practice of excluding anyone on the spectrum from speaking anything but their political spin and hateful ideology, if allowed to speak at all. Autism Really Speaks Erroneously would be better still, the acronym A.R.S.E would be appropriate too.