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[quote="dyingofpoetry"][quote="OliveOilMom"]y "See?" was about how people take hating Autism Speaks so personally. I'm a parent. When I had my kids, I had no clue I had any type of autism or that there was any other type of it that didn't mess your child up for life. I imagine that most people are still that way. I didn't know different until I was told about AS and dx'd with it. Oh. I get it now. But most do not. And if I had a severely autistic child, one that was very low functioning, I would give anything to cure him. If a parent wouldn't care enough to want to help that child, then they don't deserve to be a parent![/quote] But what if the child does not want to be "cured"? What if the child merely wishes more than anything that the parent would adjust to him/her? (And before I get hated on, everyone please keep in mind that these are rhetorical questions and I am not claiming to "speak for" anyone... um... hm... I may have inadvertently made another point.)[/quote]
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Dirtdigger
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 8:11 am
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abstract wrote:
My issue is that Autism speaks and most other Autism awareness media stresses the effects of Autism as one disease rather than a spectrum.
That's how ignorant the media is and that is why I don't have any use for the news media especially those rags who makes a mockery of everything that is different. Yes we are different, but definitely not a desease.
Dirtdigger
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 8:08 am
Post subject: Re: Some one explain the problems with Autism Speaks?
Kaelynn wrote:
I see all these posts about Autsim Speaks and how people hate it. I don't know enough about the subject to have an opinion. But could some one jsut explain some of the problems with it?
I have accepted the fact that I'm Autistic. I wouldn't have it any other way.
abstract
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:16 pm
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My issue is that Autism speaks and most other Autism awareness media stresses the effects of Autism as one disease rather than a spectrum.
LennytheWicked
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 7:11 am
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aghogday wrote:
LennytheWicked wrote:
androbot2084 wrote:
Ants are communist.
No, they're fascist. Queen ant and what not.
Actually they are Eusocial. /pedant
And there is actually an hypothesis that associates Eusociality with autism. Resulting, in part, from a very long thread, on this website.
Autism:
The Eusocial Hominid Hypothesis Link
It actually mentions Ants with unusually big heads, associated with the phenomenon. It's out of the box thinking, and pretty interesting, for a 60+ page hypothesis.
I miss the thread, it was interesting as well. I think it went on for 6 or 7 months, if not longer.
I've never head the word eusocial before. I blame my history teachers.
Now I'll be busy for a little bit.
aghogday
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 4:09 am
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LennytheWicked wrote:
androbot2084 wrote:
Ants are communist.
No, they're fascist. Queen ant and what not.
Actually they are Eusocial. /pedant
And there is actually an hypothesis that associates Eusociality with autism. Resulting, in part, from a very long thread, on this website.
Autism:
The Eusocial Hominid Hypothesis Link
It actually mentions Ants with unusually big heads, associated with the phenomenon. It's out of the box thinking, and pretty interesting, for a 60+ page hypothesis.
I miss the thread, it was interesting as well. I think it went on for 6 or 7 months, if not longer.
soutthpaw
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 2:20 am
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Just wondering how we got from the Thread title to Fascist ants??? Talk about Hijacking a thread
LennytheWicked
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:38 pm
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androbot2084 wrote:
Ants are communist.
No, they're fascist. Queen ant and what not.
NTAndrew
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 5:34 pm
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What about the ones who don't like this society and agree that. 'Its no measure of good health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.'[/quote]
I saw this on someone's signature line--"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals."
--Oscar Wilde
androbot2084
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 4:49 pm
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Ants are communist.
LennytheWicked
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 3:59 pm
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CuriousKitten wrote:
soutthpaw wrote:
Sweetleaf wrote:
androbot2084 wrote:
YOU FIGURED OUT HOW TO MAKE COMMUNISM WORK.
No I just read up on it and like what I found, I have no idea how to make it work on a large scale. I am good at researching information but don't create it. Besides liking the idea of communism is not exactly something most people find all that cool...I even got made fun of in high school when I first got interested in it as usual I was thinking I should have just kept my opinions to myself. So I am not sure I would consider knowledge about communism and ideas how it could work is very useful.
Communism works very well in the animal world. its only when you add human greed and emotion etc that it fails.
I'm still wading through this thread, but must comment here. Communism works in the animal world ?!?!?!? Where praytell!?!?!? When the predator devours the prey? When the Alpha bullies the Omega away from the kill? When the dominant male fights and even maims less able males for the right to breed?
Schools of fish are communist.
Sweetleaf
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 12:11 pm
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Quantum_Immortal wrote:
Sweetleaf wrote:
What about the ones who don't like this society and agree that. 'Its no measure of good health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.'
And what are you actually doing about it???
You do nothing. So, shut up, and don't complain.
I haven't gotten that far yet, I don't really know what I could do about it...No need to be an ass about it though
. If I am disturbed by this society I have every right to express that even if i don't know what to do about it. And to think I actually thought you were trying to be helpful before, not just waiting for some chance to throw at me that 'I'm not doing nothing so 'shut up and don't complain.' as if I never heard that one before
.
Quantum_Immortal
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:55 am
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Sweetleaf wrote:
What about the ones who don't like this society and agree that. 'Its no measure of good health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.'
And what are you actually doing about it???
You do nothing. So, shut up, and don't complain.
Sweetleaf
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:12 am
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CuriousKitten wrote:
Having waded through the whole thread . . . .
The problem I have with Autism Speaks is their narrow focus.
It would be far more productive to include everyone on the spectrum.
Early screening, diagnosis and intervention would help everyone on the spectrum reach their full potential.
Increased awareness and understanding would help everyone on the spectrum as well. Regardless of our sensory challenges, most on the spectrum do suffer more from uneducated NTs than from Autism or related challenges.
Educational protocols that help spectrumites harness their strengths and become productive members of society would benefit everyone, be they on the spectrum or not.
What about the ones who don't like this society and agree that. 'Its no measure of good health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.'
Sora
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:50 am
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androbot2084 wrote:
See Autism Speaks calls it autism spectrum disorder. That means if you think differently from everyone else you must have a disorder or a disease.
I'm not sure I follow that train of thought? Thinking different isn't the same as having autism. Not everyone who thinks differently has an ASD. (Besides that, "thinking differently" doesn't exactly have an official or even commonly agreed upon definition.)
Everyone who has an ASD must however - or they cannot and should not be diagnosed with an ASD according to how PDDs are defined - meet a certain number of behavioural criteria and have a certain number of abnormalities that must impair them in everyday life/that must limit everyday functioning.
If they don't, officially, they do not have this autism spectrum disorder/pervasive development disorder today.
androbot2084
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:55 am
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See Autism Speaks calls it autism spectrum disorder. That means if you think differently from everyone else you must have a disorder or a disease.
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