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Sophist
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 Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Belfast wrote: | | Sophist wrote: | | anbuend wrote: | | Shelby wrote: | | What we need more than anything, is someone to back us up publically. Like a celebrity, |
Like Sigourney Weaver is already doing? |
I guess she's just not making outlandish enough claims so the media latches on; unlike Jenny McCarthy.  |
Perhaps folks are hoping for a famous person to "come out" who HAS an ASD him/her self-or a family member/spouse-and that the person has positive attitude/outcome ? |
I don't know. I think even if Sigourney was autistic or had a kid who's autistic, unless she were selling the "We have to cure these kids" angle I just don't think she'd get much attention because of the way the media is right now and whose pockets they're in (organizations like Autism Speaks, CAN, etc.).
Hopefully with time, the more autistics themselves come into the limelight, this will start changing. That's why I think among other things that this article was an excellent start. At least readers can start to realize, whether they would still support a cure or not, that there are TWO sides to this story (or, well, as the article says 3) and the public can become more aware that many autistic people are actually very against finding a cure-- which I think most people not involved with the autism or autistic communities would find quite surprising. I know people I have told this to certainly have.
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