Joined: 8 Feb 2011 Age: 36 Gender: Male Posts: 204 Location: In the Eye of the Paradox
02 Apr 2016, 5:24 pm
My parent reads more about Asperger than I do, so I was only juuust told about this video
Summary, Autism speaks does not speak with any Aspies on their side, They are completely NT run, and that they use manipulation techniques to fund awareness about Aspergers but these type of people are actually discriminating us and looking into prenatal causes of AS/Autism and I can only hope where you can see what they are trying to do by researching that.
(if you haven't watched the above video, then you should.)
Joined: 14 Jun 2014 Age: 41 Gender: Male Posts: 2,121 Location: Hampshire
07 Apr 2016, 10:05 am
They don't speak for autistics and seek funding to stop it, not help those who already have it. They don't listen to autistics, either. They certainly don't speak for me.
Joined: 9 Jan 2016 Gender: Female Posts: 138 Location: Turnersville, NJ, USA
08 Apr 2016, 4:11 pm
Some people will disagree with me, but I have numerous issues with Autism Speaks, including: 1. Most of the money they make does NOT go to autism research; it lines the pockets of their executives instead. 2. They want to "cure" autism and rid the world of autistic people. 3. The gosh darn "puzzle piece" implying that autistic people are a puzzle that needs to be fixed. 4. Their documentary, "Autism Every Day," where parents just complain about having to be "burdened" with autistic kids, and one woman admitted that she wanted to kill her autistic daughter...while the child was in the room with her.
Again, some people are going to disagree with me on this, and I'll probably get some angry replies, but in my eyes, AS is comparable to the Klan or the Westboro Baptist Church.
Joined: 14 Feb 2016 Age: 61 Gender: Male Posts: 105 Location: In an airbase in Shangri-La
08 Apr 2016, 9:35 pm
kaiouti wrote:
My parent reads more about Asperger than I do, so I was only juuust told about this video
Summary, Autism speaks does not speak with any Aspies on their side, They are completely NT run, and that they use manipulation techniques to fund awareness about Aspergers but these type of people are actually discriminating us and looking into prenatal causes of AS/Autism and I can only hope where you can see what they are trying to do by researching that.
(if you haven't watched the above video, then you should.)
Wow! This is educational!
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