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KaylamiYarne
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12 May 2015, 6:50 am

Autism Speaks' 5 star rating has just been outstripped by the 1 stars and the currently sit at 1.4 instead of the 4.8 they previously held. Let's make the rating even lower :D Go to their facebook page below and post your one star rating!

https://www.facebook.com/autismspeaks?sk=reviews



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12 May 2015, 8:48 am

yay!! !! !! !!



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12 May 2015, 8:49 am

this should be making headlines!! !! !!



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12 May 2015, 9:20 am

HDLMatchette wrote:
this should be making headlines!! ! ! ! !


Yes it should!



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12 May 2015, 1:55 pm

They seemed to have taken the page down.


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12 May 2015, 2:04 pm

ASPartOfMe wrote:
They seemed to have taken the page down.



Sorry, this one should work: https://www.facebook.com/autismspeaks



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12 May 2015, 2:06 pm

Oh my; they took down their review section. That's how bad the ratings got :D



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12 May 2015, 2:07 pm

I just made a post about their new job initiative which is interesting. viewtopic.php?t=285162


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12 May 2015, 2:21 pm

alex wrote:
I just made a post about their new job initiative which is interesting. viewtopic.php?t=285162


Thank you Alex. I think the outcry over the years has motivated them to improve their ways.



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12 May 2015, 3:12 pm

KaylamiYarne wrote:
alex wrote:
I just made a post about their new job initiative which is interesting. viewtopic.php?t=285162


Thank you Alex. I think the outcry over the years has motivated them to improve their ways.


Evidently it has motivated them enough to try and silence Autistic voices that disagree with them. They did a similar thing with a campaign involving Toys R' Us


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12 May 2015, 3:34 pm

i just got home from a conference where one of the speakers was from autism speaks. she did a wonderful presentation on bullying.



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12 May 2015, 3:51 pm

A$ does some good things, but that doesn't make up for all the harm they cause.

That they felt the need to remove their review section is the highlight of my day, probably my week even.



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13 May 2015, 9:30 am

Exactly what PlainsAspie says. It's what I've meant to say but didn't know how.

They also did the same on Twitter with #AutismSpeaks10, which they tried to switch over to other pages to get rid of us but they couldn't.



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13 May 2015, 4:03 pm

Eat that, Auti$m $peak$! *cackles to himself* :twisted:



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13 May 2015, 6:19 pm

Are there any charity-rating sites you know about that have Autism Speaks on them, or that we can add Autism Speaks to, and give it all bad ratings there?



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13 May 2015, 6:29 pm

CharityGoodyGrace wrote:
Are there any charity-rating sites you know about that have Autism Speaks on them, or that we can add Autism Speaks to, and give it all bad ratings there?
Why don't you start one? Sort of like an "Angie's List" for (alleged) charitable organizations.