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28 Jul 2008, 8:34 pm

I am a high school journalist and I'm trying to write an article over the summer on Autism Speaks because almost everyone at school supports the organization out of ignorance. I already have info on the girl who was sued for alleged copyright infringement and on Allison Tepper Singer. Can anyone here lend me a hand?



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28 Jul 2008, 8:56 pm

Do a search for "Autism Speaks", I don't remember right off but a lot of people here b***h about them.



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29 Jul 2008, 5:29 am

zghost wrote:
Do a search for "Autism Speaks", I don't remember right off but a lot of people here b***h about them.


Which is one of my hobbies to take part in, because they're just like Hitler.


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29 Jul 2008, 5:33 am

CockneyRebel wrote:
Which is one of my hobbies to take part in, because they're just like Hitler.


Hobbies are good Cocky. Keep it up!


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30 Jul 2008, 8:27 am

CockneyRebel wrote:
zghost wrote:
Do a search for "Autism Speaks", I don't remember right off but a lot of people here b***h about them.


Which is one of my hobbies to take part in, because they're just like Hitler.


For teh Godwin.



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31 Jul 2008, 6:46 pm

[quote="they're just like Hitler.[/quote]

I couldn't agree more.



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31 Jul 2008, 6:57 pm

The primary concern with Autism Speaks in my opinion boils down to 3 primary reasons:

1. They have no actual autistic people on in their leadership, they really represent the families of (usually servery) autistic people and not autistic people themselves. This of course means their name is a bit of an oxymoron.

2. Only a tiny portion of their funds go to actually helping autistic people (less then 1% I think). The vast majority of their funding goes to funding research with the aim of developing a genetic test that will prevent autistic people from ever being born through selective abortions. This is a major concern, since it effectively tells every autistic person that they shouldn't have been born. You'll want to look up their financial report for 2007 for hard evidence here.


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31 Jul 2008, 8:25 pm

what a controversy :cry:



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01 Aug 2008, 12:13 am

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You'll want to look up their financial report for 2007 for hard evidence here.


Could you tell me where can i find this? i tried searching and came up with nothing.



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01 Aug 2008, 12:45 am

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You'll want to look up their financial report for 2007 for hard evidence here.


Could you tell me where can i find this? i tried searching and came up with nothing.



Neither could I!



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01 Aug 2008, 1:59 am

http://charityreports.bbb.org/public/Re ... eauID=9999

Here's a link to it. They even admit to the purpose of funding research to develop a prenatal test for autism in this report from the Better Business Bureau.



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02 Aug 2008, 8:52 am

My problem with autism speaks is that it doesn't. The people 'speaking' on this site are all parents and so called 'professionals' with no care whatsoever as to autistic people's views. Sure I can understand people with a kid smearing goodness knows what up their furniture and banging their head a lot wanting to 'cure' them, but if it was my website, i would tell people just to be happy with small improvments. Heck, I sure don't want to be normal!


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