We know so little of the components of Autism...and there is such vehement position-taking on something we all know so little about. In my own research and experience I'm realizing this is a multi-pronged issue. There is the neurodiversity of the different neuro-pathways that should be respected, not 'pruned' out of society's DNA, but there is also the genetic component that makes it difficult to purge heavy metals and heavy vaccinating can trigger developmental regressions on top of this
I believe these are different things. Through diet, supplements and therapies we've reduced the meltdowns and my son has increased clarity - so that now his behavior is allowing him to be considered for the gifted/talented program. No one wants him to not be who he is...but we only wish for the brain fog and reactivity to be reduced. We make a lot of environmental accommodations for him as well.
When his diet is changed he loses control and focus...these are the things we need to research and separate from the neural-diversity part. What aspects are treatable and are a hurdle to quality of life (but not part of someone's intrinsic nature)? We really don't fully see this picture yet.
How would anyone feel if no matter where they turned, you had nobody to lean on. If you trusted someone you were dealt eventually with the cold blade going in your back. You couldn't get even a job because of personality tests. Nobody thinks about actually understanding you but in return they fully expect you to understand them and hypocritically treat you badly if you do not meanwhile that same person is hurting you constantly.
How would you respond if this was done to you constantly?
@Lisaannjoel I've said a very similar thing to people lately; "how would you like it if that was your life? How would you like it if you couldn't go to the hospital when you are sick or injured without getting committed or arrested? If when people abuse you none of the people who are suposed to help will do anything no matter how clear the evidence? If those you love always choose society's lies over you? If people singled you out? If there were one set of rules for others & another for you?" .
Right on! I don't need a dim-witted porn star like Jenny McCarthy to rant about anti-vaccines and tell me I'm not normal. Guess what, Sherlock? There is no such thing. If they want to cure something, cure my rear end. Or better yet, cure their twisted, vile minds. Happy belated Autistics Speaking Day! Cure ignorance, not autism. :)
great video I wish there are more organizations that help autistic people function better and be accepted in society, rather then what Autism Speaks does whine about how autistic kids are doomed and will be a burden on everyone.
I have Aspergers and school was terrible for me, not only was I bullied by kids I felt like the teachers were bullying me too by putting me in the severely disabled class and making me take life skills classes when I'm very high functioning
@Spydyee. I never meant to disparage anyone. I am thankful for the iPad because my grandson is beginning to " mand" at age 7 just as I am thankful for meds that let me function well. Obviously my grandson is not high functioning like you but may well be more intelligent than either of us, and may prove to be more talented as well.
This video is a Joke!........there are true Autistic people, but there is also a new epidemic of children (1 in 100) that are labeled "Autistic" and they're not Autistic at all; they have a NeuroImmune disease, where their NeuroGlia in their brains are chronically activated.......this video is asking to not help children with a medical disease - great message!........these children will never be able to take care of themselves unless they get the NeuroGlia in their brains cooled off.
@ChiefClickClack Good grief If what you say had any real science behind it we (Adult Aspies and Auties) would fully support finding a "cure" However, there is not one shred of credible evidence that supports your claims. On top of that there are children like my daughter who never had a vaccine (because we didn't know better and we bought into the whole vaccines BS) and was still diagnosed with Autism. That is when we woke up and got tested. Both me and my husband are Aspies.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! I am autistic, and this video speaks for me! I'm guessing that your choice not to mention "Autism Speaks" was deliberate? Because it seems to me that's what this video is all about - trying to address some of the damage they have caused with their ad campaigns. Am I mistaken? Regardless, THANK YOU again!
I do not "suffer" from autism, I suffer from the way people treat me because of the mainstream attitudes people have towards autism and autistic people. More videos like this need to be made and more people need to see them.
I'm sorry I spelled Aspergers wrong, and I really was asking a sincere question about why voiceovers were used. "Dumb", "ignorant"? I think "foolish" to be in this conversation. I should have just thanked mwalkoul22 for expressing how I feel.
Wouldn't "rethink Aspbergers" be more appropriate and totally justifiable? I have already said what makes me angry. I have offended you. Are you celebrities I don't recognize? Or Scientists? Negligee models?
Isn't this video your mission statement ? Are you certain I am not dumb?
You own a computer, and you are on-line, so you aren't dumb; yet you profess not to know what a "voiceover" is, and lapse into angry branding (labeling).
Why the anger? What exactly are you angry at? An answer, Please; not a label.
@bunnylover4444 because I couldn't afford to fly them all here and videotape them. You seem very angry and I don't feel like fueling your anger. I'm trying to help autistic people have a say in the national autism conversation. I would like for your grandson to be able to communicate as well, that is why I'm including autistic adults, who have grown up autistic and could have some words of advice. Please go to the "Our Voice" page and see what they have to say.
@bunnylover4444 I use the term "autistic people" because that is what they are. You can't separate the autism from the person. You don't say a person with "femaleness" you say a female to distinguish her from a male. Just as you would say "autistic" to distinguish them from a neurotypical person. You do say a person with a cold because it is possible to remove the cold and still have the person.
Do you use the term "autistic people" to illustrate they aren't people with Autism? My grandson has Autism. He has the face and disposition of an angel. He cannot, however, speak or communicate. He is unable to express joy, frustration, his intellect , etc in ways we (without autism) can perceive his intention. We want to know him. Do you understand that? Can you? We want him to function well enough to have a "say", to protect himself from predators, to have friends. What you call psudosc
@bunnylover4444 Many of us on the spectrum prefer to be called autistic and the best explanation that I have ever seen articulated can be found by searching Why I Dislike Person First Language by Jim Sinclair
I have posted Why I like Person First Language here so that many can come to understand the way a large number of us feel about the term person with Autism. Jim Sinclair expressed this sentiment so well that I felt it needed to be shared. Jim has done some other great writings and I suggest that everyone read them. Another great one is Don't Mourn For Us. Every parent of an Autistic Child should read that one.
I am not a "person with autism." I am an autistic person. Why does this distinction matter to me?
1) Saying "person with autism" suggests that the autism can be separated from the person. But this is not the case. I can be separated from things that are not part of me, and I am still be the same person.
2) Saying "person with autism" suggests that even if autism is part of the person, it isn't a very important part. Characteristics that are recognized as central to a person's identity are appropriately stated as adjectives, and may even be used as nouns to describe people: We talk about "male" and "female" people, and even about "men" and "women" and "boys" and "girls," not about "people with maleness" and "people with femaleness."
Yet autism goes deeper than culture and learned belief systems. It affects how we relate to others and how we find places in society. It even affects how we relate to our own bodies. If I did not have an autistic brain, the person that I am would not exist. I am autistic because autism is an essential feature of me as a person.
3) Saying "person with autism" suggests that autism is something bad--so bad that is isn't even consistent with being a person. Nobody objects to using adjectives to refer to characteristics of a person that are considered positive or neutral. We talk about left-handed people, not "people with left-handedness," and about athletic or musical people, not about "people with athleticism" or "people with musicality."
3) Saying "person with autism" suggests that autism is something bad--so bad that is isn't even consistent with being a person. Nobody objects to using adjectives to refer to characteristics of a person that are considered positive or neutral. We talk about left-handed people, not "people with left-handedness," and about athletic or musical people, not about "people with athleticism" or "people with musicality."
We might call someone a "blue-eyed person" or a "person with blue eyes," and nobody objects to either descriptor. It is only when someone has decided that the characteristic being referred to is negative that suddenly people want to separate it from the person.
I know that autism is not a terrible thing, and that it does not make me any less a person. If other people have trouble remembering that autism doesn't make me any less a person, then that's their problem, not mine. Let them find a way to remind themselves that I'm a person, without trying to define an essential feature of my personhood as something bad. I am autistic because I accept and value myself the way I am.
@bunnylover4444 I am an Autistic Person and I have Systemic Lupus Erythematosus I would really like them to find a cure for my Lupus but I am perfect fine with my Autism.
@bunnylover4444 Do you truly want the child to be able to communicate with you? To what lengths are you willing to go to make that happen? Are you willing to learn to communicate with the child on his terms or does ha have to accommodate you? I am the mom of 2 Kanner Cuties that had significant speech delays. One is still predominately non-verbal. We use multiple communication techniques with him. PECS, Computer, VOD, and Sign Language. His speech improved when we shut up talking AT him.
Yes, I had watched it, visited your website ad viewed a few of Leeann's videos. I think your creative juices were misdirected and ridiculous. What do you mean you used voices of people with autism?
@bunnylover4444 Voiceovers. It is when you hear someone speaking but don't see them on camera. If you don't like the videos then feel free to ignore them.
Helping our loved ones with autism in any way we can, with everything we have and will be celebrating even the smallest accomplishment that merges our lives and our world with theirs.
@bunnylover4444 sorry you feel that way. The video features voiceovers from autistic people and was co-written by autistic people. Perhaps you will like the new video better for it features an autistic adult. It is called Rethinking Autism: Autism Support Group.
You need to rethink what your motives are doing these videos about a subject you obviously know nothing about. Leeann is introduced on your website as not being "autistic" or having an "autistic" child. I think each of you should grace us with what you "are". A video, I am Bill, I am not "autistic" I am " ". I am Elizabeth, I am not "autistic" I am " ", and so on. Make sure you show us your Neurodiversities, you've shown your vanity and arrogance. While you are busy with that, we will be h
When my son is well enough to tell me he wants to have Autism, I will be happy to let him, and I will also know it is because of the work that I have done that he has a voice to tell me. Those with Asperger's are free to be themselves and I care nothing to fix them, but my son is not autistic, he suffers from AUTISM.
@mwalkowi22 I appreciate how you feel about this, but you are in no position to label a group to which you do not belong. If we want to call ourselves "autistic", then we have that right.
I realise it's more convenient for some parents to pretend that autism and Aspergers are so very different, because it means "those Aspies" couldn't possibly understand what they are going through. It's a shame, because I think many of us could, actually. It's all on a spectrum.
@mwalkowi22 No your son is Autistic and will be for the rest of his life. You suffer from his Autism the same way my mother-in-law suffers from my children's autism. She is getting better but my kids are still autistic. It is not about "wanting" to have Autism it is about learning to love yourself just the way your creator made you.
@mwalkowi22 Whitney Houston did a song called Greatest Love of All and the lyrics of that song are so true. I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadows If I fail, if I succeed At least I live as I believe No matter what they take from me They can't take away my dignity Because the greatest love of all Is happening to me I found the greatest love of all Inside of me The greatest love of all Is easy to achieve Learning to love yourself It is the greatest love of all
@mwalkowi22 Of course to be able to teach your son to love himself and accept himself you will have to stop suffering from his autism first and begin celebrating his neurodiversity. As the Autistic mother of 6 children diagnosed on the spectrum and the grandmother of 3 diagnosed on the spectrum I do have a slightly different perspective. And, Yes I do have Kanner Cuties that are non-verbal so I am a bit more than a condescending Aspie that has never dealt with "real Autism"
As a father of an 6yr old Autistic child I don't need to re-think anything. I would give anything so my son doesn't have to struggle with this disability. Looking at him trying so hard to speak and say a few words and how frustrated he gets not being able to communicate what he needs.
I am not trying to "Cure" him but lets not pretend that Autism is a great thing. Autism Speaks should really find better ways to use their money than to make this video.
@deliasc Speaking as an autistic person, let me just say one thing: Stop making YOUR CHILD'S DISABILITY about YOU. It isn't about you. It isn't about how "sad" you are because your child isn't "normal" enough for you. Autism Speaks is also a hated and reviled organization in the autism community. They work only to find "cures" to wipe this planet clean of people like me (people like YOUR SON) because autistic people are not "normal" enough. They speak for NOBODY but ableist assholes.
I've grown tired of parents throwing their child on tv, showing videos of them struggling with meltdowns and then claiming their child is horrible. Those parents are horrible and the child does have feelings. Maybe if the parents would treat their child better, there would be a stronger will for the child.
I should know about that one. My parents did not believe in me.
@Ghouldilocks agreed, autism speaks are a bunch of tyrants that need to burn in hell for calling autism a tragedy and putting us as a health crisis because we're sick compared to the likes of aids diabetes or cancer. autism is something that doesn't need to be "fixed" or "normalized" it's something that needs to be accepted for it differences in that person. autism speaks can go to hell for all eternity for calling autism a tragedy worse than a terminal disease.
@deliasc I'm also the parent of two autistic children (one of whom is nonverbal). And I'm an autistic adult.
This video is not the viewpoint of autism parents. It's the viewpoint of autistic people. People who are actually on the spectrum. Adults who, like your son and mine, had huge difficulties as children and overcame them. Adults like me.
Recognise that you are on the outside looking in. This is not about how you feel about autism. It's about US. And it would do you well to listen.
@deliasc This video is not made by Autism Speaks. I would faint if they even acknowledged that Autistic people had the ability to have feelings and concerns let alone actually give us a voice. You say you watch your son struggle with words and that he is frustrated by not being able to communicate. Why can't he communicate? Words are not the only way a person communicates. I am an Autistic parent of Autistic kids and we use PECS, Sign Language, Computers and many other ways to communicate.
Thankyou thankyou thankyou. I am an individual with AS and I get really sick of that "OTHER" so -called-advocacy group and their videos that portray autism as the worst tragedy that befalls a parent. Thankyou for posting a positive message, by actual people with autism. It should be on all the tv stations.
I have Asperger's Syndrome and it's nice to see there are ordinary people who are smart enough to see through the lies genocidal aims of Autism Speaks.
@JSchroet my son has autism not AS so he unable to speak for himself or to voice his views on how he is/feels. but he is just happy as he is. being autistic is the only way he knows 'how to be'. no one is asking for the other 99% of the world to change??! what we are asking for is acceptance, tolerance and respect for ppl with autism. isn't that what every person autistic or not deserves???
I want to have functioning social skills,executive functioning and sensory integration.I hate being autistic and can NOT understand why being proud of having an ASD is a better course than treatment. If people with autism are 1% of the world then why make the other 99% of people change their ways? I guess it is the nature of the egocentricity and poorempathy that I need. I just feel that I should make the case that some people with AS want cures
@theamazinj the people that can't usually can't because they keep trying to be something other than autistic. They have not yet accepted themselves and keep trying to "pass" as "normal" Back in the days of the Jim Crow laws many light skinned blacks could "pass" and many did. However, they were always looking over their shoulder living in fear of being discovered. That is no way to live. Be open. Be honest. Be Proud of who you are.
@JSchroet Why do we have to dislike ourselves because we are different and treated poorly by the rest of society. There was a time when African Americans were treated badly so should they have wanted a cure for having black skin? What about Gays and Lesbians? Being homosexual was considered a mental disorder for years. Should they want a cure? NO! Learn to love you. The only reason you dislike who you are is because you are trying to be something else. Learn to love yourself.
@JSchroet Society has done a real number on your head. Tell me why being NT would be better than being an Aspie other than you could "fit in" with a society that is unwilling to accept you just the way you are. What if you were being ostracized because of your eye color or hair color. Would you dye your hair or buy colored contact lenses in order to change your eye color? I refuse to be that shallow. God made me an Aspie so it is my job to be the best Aspie I can be. I do not need curing.
@JSchroet Society has done a real number on your head. Tell me why being NT would be better than being an Aspie other than you could "fit in" with a society that is unwilling to accept you just the way you are. What if you were being ostracized because of your eye color or hair color. Would you dye your hair or buy colored contact lenses in order to change your eye color? I refuse to be that shallow. God made me an Aspie so it is my job to be the best Aspie I can be. I do not need curing.
Looking at things from a Capitalistic Perspective. Yes, us Aspies and Autistic's are just as dirty a bunch of money grubbers as the rest of humanity......... "OWENS-ILLONOIS" the largest "GLASS" maker in the world could really hurt their "plastic manufacturing" rivals. By starting a campaign "to suggest" that packaging any "ACIDIC Food or Drink" in Plastic could possibly be effecting the rate of folks being born with autism........Us Aspies/Auties can be ruthless ass businessmen too, you know!!
I'm Autistic / Asperger's, whatever you wish to refer to it as. And am perfectly capable of speaking for myself......................... I certainly hoping these "Pretty Boy's n Girls" aren't trying to speak for me.............................Admittadly, I'm a bit of a prideful bastard and hate nothing more than to be spoken for by another unless i request them to and don't even try to speak of me in third person!...............
@bubblesmakehimsmile In the 1960s geneticists discovered a way to test for Downs Syndrome before a baby was born. They hailed this discovery as a way to "cure" Downs Syndrome. World wide the number of births of children with Downs syndrome has decreased dramatically. The methodology is the problem. 90% of all children prenatally diagnosed with Downs Syndrome are aborted. Autism is the next "catastrophic developmental illness" that they want to "cure." No Thank You
@Spydyee2 So you are saying the "they" refers to the people trying to prevent people who have autism from being born are the parents since it is their decision, if their was a cure for autism, to abort? Do you think autism is a catastrophic developmental illness that parents would rather abort than have a child with autism?
@bubblesmakehimsmile no the "they" are the same type of "they that led to the T4 project in Nazi Germany. The people that see anyone different from the socially defined "norms" as a burden to society that would be better off dead. They, through medical professionals put enormous pressure on families to abort babies prenatally diagnosed with any "catastrophic developmental illness" (please notice the quotes that is their terminology not mine) First Downs Syndrome, Next Autism
@bubblesmakehimsmile As far as would parents abort rather than have an autistic child Hmmmm A 90% abortion rate for Down Syndrome world wide and 97% in the good ole USA tells me that if there was a test for Autism like there is a test for Down Syndrome then yes the abortion rates for Autism would be comparable. If you wonder then go search for the number of Autistic people murdered each year by their parents. Does the name Katie McCarron mean anything to you? If not then Google it.
Every one needs to watch this in order to open our lives to every one. Every one is different and unique. People on the Autism Spectrum have strengths/gifts. Most people in the world have been thinking too much as if it is a problem. This video should touch the soul of everyone. It makes any body realize we should be thinking of the solutions not the problem(s). Every one lives here for a reason! Let US/Autistics live here for our reason with our strengths. I watch this often. It's Great!
CDFoakley's comment is so right.[I think some aspies are angry just because they are in denial of extreme cases. They will claim that those are very rare and the majority just have aspergers.] Which is not true. Neurodiversity is acceptable and should be. But there is a recovery from Autism, so why not?
First of all most of us Aspies do not deny that our Autie brothers and sisters exist. Many of us are parents of Auties.
Second, there is no "Cure" and most "treatments" are abusive.
Third, If those of us who can speak out, don't speak out, then there are those who cannot speak out, that will never have a voice that really understands them.
We are not the ones in denial. It is the parents that have not gotten over not having their "perfect child" that are in denial.
Do you guys acknowledge the other side of autism? The side shown in kgaccount videos? Or on my channel? Seems this is a side we don't hear about...so it works both ways...I agree with you...nobody should demand a cure...but at the same time, you can't ignore the brutal realities some families raising severely autistic children or adults are facing! Look at autism and self injurious behaviors where our son is smashing his fists into his head....that is what we want cured. We accept the autism
Why you received 2 thumbs down is beyond me. Your son does represent a large percentage of the spectrum and he deserves to be recognized as well. He deserves a cure for his condition and anyone that would deny him that is cruel and inhuman.
I second this comment... I don't fully understand the meaning of this group, but there ARE traits that autistics (esp children) have that ARE harmful to themselves. A lot of it has to do with a simple lack of "common sense" as we know it. It's a lack of certain fears of specific dangers, things that could harm them. Because of this, they are tightly linked to a need for caregivers who will protect them from these elements of harm.
Seems to me, there is a lot of "gray area" left unanswered with a video like this. Seems like there needs to be some kind of acknowledgement of those "dangers" that need addressing while making their point.
The thing is though, these "dangers" do not explain everything about autism. They apply usually to the lower end of the spectrum or to children. The point of this video is to summarize the whole spectrum in a positive light, while at the same time mock celebrity promoters like Jenny McCarthy.
Almost none of us ever said we were against treatments for autism. We just don't like using the word "cure" because that means eliminating autism COMPLETELY to make a child NT, which is wrong. But we would definitely want to rule out SIBs just as much as any parents would, so the kids could have a higher quality life. We also agree that there needs to be some form of communication beyond tantrums and violent approaches. But you are right that there is a lot of bias towards HFA and assets.
Thanks, that's sweet of you! I'm really amazed how angry some people are with me about the videos I've posted of my son's self injury and severe autism...it's not like I'm promoting this, I was just so isolated for so long with my son's severe autism I almost went crazy because I thought nobody would ever understand what we went through, and then I discovered you tube...and saw other cases of severe autism and spoke with HF aspergers and autistic persons that got it.....others are angry at me...
I think some aspies are angry just because they are in denial of extreme cases. They will claim that those are very rare and the majority just have aspergers. I don't really buy that, even though I agree that the "80% of autistics are mentally retarded" claim is a 1995 myth.
@AnElephantThatPaints I'm not angry. I'm pissed off. People with Fragile X syndrome, Rett syndrome, ADHD, PDD-NOS, etc we all have a genetic disorder and the only cure is teaching us. Other then that this whole thing of a cure that pseudo-science came up with is wrong.
@AnElephantThatPaints You can't cure a genetic problem. Sense you can't cure a genetic problem what are you going to do. Why not stop act like we are all dumb and can't think or do anything. Maybe if you stepped back you would see that there is a lot we can do it just take us more time then most people.
@Epica124 I am an autitstic person, I am not acting like any of you are dumb, I am just saying that we cannot ignore the realities of severe autism. But yes, there are many amazing things autistics can do, and I actually think many of the LFA kids have locked autistic abilities that can be uncovered.
@AnElephantThatPaints As an aspie, I agree that the realities of severe autism is something that cannot be ignored. However, at the same time there also needs to be attention brought to the less severe forms as well. Maybe there should be more focus what can be done to uncover the locked autistic abilities that LFA kids have.
@muchambrosia You need to read the latest research. It is genetic. There are a series of repeats on numerous genes and these repeats are common to every person in a genetic study of families with multiple cases of diagnosed Autism int he family. It is not a single gene like Downs syndrome. it is a series of pattern repeats on multiple genes that affect numerous things. However, it is there in every autistic person in the study.
Diets help some of the co-morbidities of autism but not the autism.
@CDFoakley As much as it pains me to say this while you're son has severe autism that does not mean he can't get help. There are groups and people out there who have worked hard to understand what autism is. They can help you're son the right way by knowing what his world is like and what he is thinking.
@Epica124 Thank you. I see sparks of hope and progress in spurts. I know my son is in a different world than we can ever understand and our goal is to help him. It's hard to find people who truly understand this side of spectrum, since it's so shocking. However, he does show signs of incredible potential. He can go from 2 weeks of extreme sib over a blister on feet to 2 weeks of mapping out complex routes around the shopping mall and grabbing things off shelf and holding them....
@CDFoakley At lest you found out he had it when he was younger. I never even knew I was on the spectrum until I was in my late 20's. I don't even know what part of me is which and a lot of that has to do with the fact that I have aspergers which is not as bad as full on Autism. But still I have wore a mask most of my life.
@CDFoakley You need to figure out why your son is on sensory overload and "Cure" that. What is overloading his senses. I am an Aspie mom of 6 kids on the spectrum I have a child who is self injurious when she is on sensory overload. We simply keep this from occurring. We had to determine her triggers and keep her away from them. Of course it was easier for us since some of her triggers are our triggers also. He doesn't need curing his environment does. If you want real help let me know.
Very nice! I am the mom of an 11 yr old aspie...and I don't to "cure" him. There is NOTHING WRONG with him. He is just different. Just like someone who is black, asian, caucasian, indian etc. are different from each other. None of them have something WRONG. STOP trying to change my kid and love him for who he is!
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Yetti0: Autism is not a new race! That is like saying schizophrenia is a "new race" As far as the correlation, look up what the definition of correlation is when it pertains to research... you are obviously poorly educated
You need to understand the difference between autism and schizophrenia to understand what Yetti0 is saying. One is a result of a psychological spectrum value, the other is a result of the triad of imbalances. It would be like saying neurotypical is a result of imbalance, not of genetic factors. It's confused and complicated, but can be easily simplified out with the right model to think of it.
@MsLibramom Actually there are enough genetic repeats that if we were frogs, lizards, birds, or dogs we would be a new subspecies but because Homo Sapiens Sapiens are so egotistical they cannot admit that there is any other subspecies of Homo Sapiens but them. They managed to annihilate all other members of the genus Homo so it is no wonder that they are unwilling to accept a new subspecies. (we are actually not new but that is a topic for a different place)
If there is a cure for being asian, caucasion, black, native american then you will have a cure for autism. We are a new race of people... no link to vaccines.
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If you do not want to know what caused Autism for you that is fine but for a woman such as myself that plans to have more children, I would like to know why there is such a DRAMATIC increase of people with autism. As for the research that states that vaccines are NOT the cause, you really need to find out who is funding the research. At minimum, there is a definite correlation between the extreme increase of vaccines that we give children and the increase of children w/ autism.
MS Libramom.. I am a 58 yr old female aspie.. diagnosed only 2 yrs ago.. I have two friends on the spectrum who are refusing to have it officially diagnosed because of groups like Autism speaks... the DRAMATIC increase is elementary my dear MS Libramom..we older ones have not been diagnosed.. people are just now beginning to diagnose children so the numbers look like increasing when in reality..we are just accounting for all of us, which were not accounted for before...or is that too hard ?
There is ABSOLUTELY no correlation bettween vaccines and AUtism... UK and Swedish studies have proven it... its coincidence of the age... I never had vaccines and I am on the spectrum as was my mom, grandmother , aunts uncles and cousins..its genetic..
@Yetti0 My son had no vaccines either, but I have severe candidiasis while pregnant and so did my mom, check this title on you tube, it can explain a lot:
Autism Diet: Donna Gates & Dr. Campbell-McBride (1 of 6)
@xiphocostal And yet you are fully recovered from mumps. NEARLY dying from anything is frightening, but it does not compare to serious lifelong disability.
@morepuppies O yeah , did I mention both measles and mumps can kill you? Assuming vaccinations did cause autism (which we know they don't) Are you saying you would rather have a dead kid than an autistic one? Or would you rather have a disabled kid, just so long as he isn't autistic? How do you know I am fully recovered?Your comment is wrong on so many levels.
Autism spectrum disorders have not always been included as unique diagnostic conditions in the DSM. Through the years, the diagnostic criteria has been refined.
No Clinician can diagnose something that is not included in this book. Technically if it isn't in the book it does not exist. Autism was considered to be a symptom of Schizophrenia and not a separate disorder until the DSM III was published. That was 1980.
Asperger's Syndrome was not added to the DSM until the DSM IV was published which was 1994. By the time Asperger's was added I already had 6 of my nine children and every one of them are Aspies. The older ones were not diagnosed as children and the youngest of that group was not diagnosed until he was 11. I was diagnosed at 40+ years old because I could not have been diagnosed as a child. The only epidemic is a diagnostic epidemic.
@MsLibramom Autism Speaks was one of the major funding sources as well as Duke University, the University of North Carolina, USC, Johns Hopkins, and two other universities that I can't remember right now. The government grants to fund the research went through Autism Speaks. Please understand that Autism Speaks has been trying to link this to vaccines and when the research proved them wrong they had to do some serious adjustments of their "platform"
As a final note, someone that was representative of me would show up on video not making eye contact or smiling. They'd say they applied to hundreds of jobs with nobody ever calling back. That they wasted 4 perilous years at college. And that women make a joke of being with him, as if it's the worst thing imaginable and they should band together to prevent it. For the most part my people think the world hasn't delivered on the promises it made to us early on to make us obey.
If you really want to help autistics, support what I think is a standard ideal that has been long lost. That anyone who is willing to work at it should be able to earn a living wage and have sex. Not completely shut out of it and the mere existence of our efforts denied let alone are these efforts rewarded.
But right now your startup group is just roughing it at lesser issues than addressing this real problem. We don't want inclusion, we want sex partners and to get out of our parents' houses.
@Fakkensevudo Well from one Aspie to another Get off your duff and advocate for change. I am and Aspie female. I am married to an Aspie man and we have made two beautiful Kanner Autistic kids together (that addresses the whole sex thing) We are active advocates for ourselves and our children. We run our own business and are successful enough that we are not living with our parents. You do have to stretch to your limits and meet the NT world halfway.
And otherwise reduce their dependence on money, which the conformist system monopolizes. There is also a behemoth tax system that strongly encourages a low-income, low expenditure way of life. I live on $6k a year.
The system isn't going to change because it puts its friends into wealth that they blow on SUVs, big houses and clothes. Everyone else - autistics, war veterans, minorities, thought criminals - are dumped by the wayside and are lucky if they can get subsistence wages.
Not the kind of superficial image you try to present. Our culture is one of efficiency, we do things that make the world turn that nobody appreciates, because we're not conformist.
Don't even bother with inclusive education. There are many other classes of people that they abuse, better to have other options like homeschool rather than force conformists to be reasonable.
Good solutions are those that reduce dependence on unreliable human beings. Teach autistics how to do things themselves.
At least to me when you use sex in advertising and talk about meaningless things like neurodiversity and "inclusion" it is falling on deaf ears
The real issues facing people with autism is that they can't get jobs or have sex. There will be no "problem" for us if we could have a normal life and weren't subjected to childhood trauma.
And it doesn't help that you have to lie to get that normal life either. And they call us disabled...
The real heroes of the world are unshaved and poor.
Thank You for doing this video. I am aspie too. demanding an autistic to take a cure is like demanding a person born deaf to get a cochlear implant. How can we be socially disabled if we never had the ability to understand social situations in the first place? I have a deaf friend. when she is around the hearing, she does not stop being deaf any more than I stop being hearing when I'm around her and her deaf friends. We are able to speak for ourselves. Just in a different language.
Wanted to let you know that when I posted this on my personal (read: not my advocacy) blog, one of my friends commented that she thought it should show on all the News Channels.
You do not then know what Autism and Autism Speaks are truly all about. ASAN is an Aspergers Autism Speaks hate group... Grow up and do some research...
NTs are like weeds in a garden, they grow anywhere, without rain or even sun, they accumulate together,
Aspies however are like an exotic rare species of plant that will only grow in certain climates,
You can find Aspies sometimes overwhelmed in a garden by weeds, pushed aside as the weeds take over all the nutrients from the soil. The weeds accumulate together in clumps feeding off each other. Make sure you weed every day. For best results.
The Voice Overs were all Autistics. I was one of them (I'm Savannah offline, Though my middle name is Nico so most of my family/friends of my family call me Nico), and am friends with some of the others.
i've posted this vid on twitter several times already and plan on doing it a million times more, ppl need to see that this is REAL autism awareness! ty so much for making this! :)
i've e-mailed you a closed-caption file for this-- this thing *needs* to be made as accessible as possible, unlike a certain other organization's video that's far better on mute. :)
We know so little of the components of Autism...and there is such vehement position-taking on something we all know so little about. In my own research and experience I'm realizing this is a multi-pronged issue. There is the neurodiversity of the different neuro-pathways that should be respected, not 'pruned' out of society's DNA, but there is also the genetic component that makes it difficult to purge heavy metals and heavy vaccinating can trigger developmental regressions on top of this
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kuroneko99 1 month ago
I believe these are different things. Through diet, supplements and therapies we've reduced the meltdowns and my son has increased clarity - so that now his behavior is allowing him to be considered for the gifted/talented program. No one wants him to not be who he is...but we only wish for the brain fog and reactivity to be reduced. We make a lot of environmental accommodations for him as well.
kuroneko99 1 month ago
When his diet is changed he loses control and focus...these are the things we need to research and separate from the neural-diversity part. What aspects are treatable and are a hurdle to quality of life (but not part of someone's intrinsic nature)? We really don't fully see this picture yet.
kuroneko99 1 month ago
How would anyone feel if no matter where they turned, you had nobody to lean on. If you trusted someone you were dealt eventually with the cold blade going in your back. You couldn't get even a job because of personality tests. Nobody thinks about actually understanding you but in return they fully expect you to understand them and hypocritically treat you badly if you do not meanwhile that same person is hurting you constantly.
How would you respond if this was done to you constantly?
Lisaannjoel 2 months ago
@Lisaannjoel I've said a very similar thing to people lately; "how would you like it if that was your life? How would you like it if you couldn't go to the hospital when you are sick or injured without getting committed or arrested? If when people abuse you none of the people who are suposed to help will do anything no matter how clear the evidence? If those you love always choose society's lies over you? If people singled you out? If there were one set of rules for others & another for you?" .
TOMHYLE88 2 months ago
Right on! I don't need a dim-witted porn star like Jenny McCarthy to rant about anti-vaccines and tell me I'm not normal. Guess what, Sherlock? There is no such thing. If they want to cure something, cure my rear end. Or better yet, cure their twisted, vile minds. Happy belated Autistics Speaking Day! Cure ignorance, not autism. :)
BaltoLoneWoolf 3 months ago
great video I wish there are more organizations that help autistic people function better and be accepted in society, rather then what Autism Speaks does whine about how autistic kids are doomed and will be a burden on everyone.
I have Aspergers and school was terrible for me, not only was I bullied by kids I felt like the teachers were bullying me too by putting me in the severely disabled class and making me take life skills classes when I'm very high functioning
Genin99 3 months ago
good video, I have autism spectrum
kalols2 9 months ago
@Spydyee. I never meant to disparage anyone. I am thankful for the iPad because my grandson is beginning to " mand" at age 7 just as I am thankful for meds that let me function well. Obviously my grandson is not high functioning like you but may well be more intelligent than either of us, and may prove to be more talented as well.
bunnylover4444 9 months ago
This video is a Joke!........there are true Autistic people, but there is also a new epidemic of children (1 in 100) that are labeled "Autistic" and they're not Autistic at all; they have a NeuroImmune disease, where their NeuroGlia in their brains are chronically activated.......this video is asking to not help children with a medical disease - great message!........these children will never be able to take care of themselves unless they get the NeuroGlia in their brains cooled off.
ChiefClickClack 10 months ago
@ChiefClickClack that's some very good bullshit you've concocted there sir
azaziify 10 months ago
@ChiefClickClack Good grief If what you say had any real science behind it we (Adult Aspies and Auties) would fully support finding a "cure" However, there is not one shred of credible evidence that supports your claims. On top of that there are children like my daughter who never had a vaccine (because we didn't know better and we bought into the whole vaccines BS) and was still diagnosed with Autism. That is when we woke up and got tested. Both me and my husband are Aspies.
Spydyee2 10 months ago
Wwonder if big pharma is funding these videos. They are playing on your emotions asspies. Wake up
mwalkowi22 10 months ago
@mwalkowi22 i don't take bullshit from nt's because you are all made of social manipulative bullshit wake up fucker
azaziify 10 months ago
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! I am autistic, and this video speaks for me! I'm guessing that your choice not to mention "Autism Speaks" was deliberate? Because it seems to me that's what this video is all about - trying to address some of the damage they have caused with their ad campaigns. Am I mistaken? Regardless, THANK YOU again!
dcs002 10 months ago
I do not "suffer" from autism, I suffer from the way people treat me because of the mainstream attitudes people have towards autism and autistic people. More videos like this need to be made and more people need to see them.
Ghouldilocks 10 months ago
I'm sorry I spelled Aspergers wrong, and I really was asking a sincere question about why voiceovers were used. "Dumb", "ignorant"? I think "foolish" to be in this conversation. I should have just thanked mwalkoul22 for expressing how I feel.
bunnylover4444 10 months ago
@bunnylover4444 dam u trolls all of you are nazis
azaziify 10 months ago
Did you just brand (label) me un-dumb? :)
Wouldn't "rethink Aspbergers" be more appropriate and totally justifiable? I have already said what makes me angry. I have offended you. Are you celebrities I don't recognize? Or Scientists? Negligee models?
Isn't this video your mission statement ? Are you certain I am not dumb?
bunnylover4444 11 months ago
Thank you for this video. Thank you SO much. <3
Ghouldilocks 11 months ago
@bunnylover4444
You own a computer, and you are on-line, so you aren't dumb; yet you profess not to know what a "voiceover" is, and lapse into angry branding (labeling).
Why the anger? What exactly are you angry at? An answer, Please; not a label.
f8andbethere 11 months ago
Why were voiceovers necessary?
bunnylover4444 11 months ago
@bunnylover4444 because I couldn't afford to fly them all here and videotape them. You seem very angry and I don't feel like fueling your anger. I'm trying to help autistic people have a say in the national autism conversation. I would like for your grandson to be able to communicate as well, that is why I'm including autistic adults, who have grown up autistic and could have some words of advice. Please go to the "Our Voice" page and see what they have to say.
RethinkingAutism 11 months ago 3
@bunnylover4444 I use the term "autistic people" because that is what they are. You can't separate the autism from the person. You don't say a person with "femaleness" you say a female to distinguish her from a male. Just as you would say "autistic" to distinguish them from a neurotypical person. You do say a person with a cold because it is possible to remove the cold and still have the person.
RethinkingAutism 11 months ago 4
Do you use the term "autistic people" to illustrate they aren't people with Autism? My grandson has Autism. He has the face and disposition of an angel. He cannot, however, speak or communicate. He is unable to express joy, frustration, his intellect , etc in ways we (without autism) can perceive his intention. We want to know him. Do you understand that? Can you? We want him to function well enough to have a "say", to protect himself from predators, to have friends. What you call psudosc
bunnylover4444 11 months ago
@bunnylover4444 Many of us on the spectrum prefer to be called autistic and the best explanation that I have ever seen articulated can be found by searching Why I Dislike Person First Language by Jim Sinclair
Spydyee2 10 months ago
I have posted Why I like Person First Language here so that many can come to understand the way a large number of us feel about the term person with Autism. Jim Sinclair expressed this sentiment so well that I felt it needed to be shared. Jim has done some other great writings and I suggest that everyone read them. Another great one is Don't Mourn For Us. Every parent of an Autistic Child should read that one.
Spydyee2 10 months ago
@bunnylover4444
Why I dislike "person first" language
Jim Sinclair
I am not a "person with autism." I am an autistic person. Why does this distinction matter to me?
1) Saying "person with autism" suggests that the autism can be separated from the person. But this is not the case. I can be separated from things that are not part of me, and I am still be the same person.
Spydyee2 10 months ago
@bunnylover4444
2) Saying "person with autism" suggests that even if autism is part of the person, it isn't a very important part. Characteristics that are recognized as central to a person's identity are appropriately stated as adjectives, and may even be used as nouns to describe people: We talk about "male" and "female" people, and even about "men" and "women" and "boys" and "girls," not about "people with maleness" and "people with femaleness."
Spydyee2 10 months ago
@bunnylover4444
Yet autism goes deeper than culture and learned belief systems. It affects how we relate to others and how we find places in society. It even affects how we relate to our own bodies. If I did not have an autistic brain, the person that I am would not exist. I am autistic because autism is an essential feature of me as a person.
Spydyee2 10 months ago
@bunnylover4444
3) Saying "person with autism" suggests that autism is something bad--so bad that is isn't even consistent with being a person. Nobody objects to using adjectives to refer to characteristics of a person that are considered positive or neutral. We talk about left-handed people, not "people with left-handedness," and about athletic or musical people, not about "people with athleticism" or "people with musicality."
Spydyee2 10 months ago
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3) Saying "person with autism" suggests that autism is something bad--so bad that is isn't even consistent with being a person. Nobody objects to using adjectives to refer to characteristics of a person that are considered positive or neutral. We talk about left-handed people, not "people with left-handedness," and about athletic or musical people, not about "people with athleticism" or "people with musicality."
Spydyee2 10 months ago
@bunnylover4444
We might call someone a "blue-eyed person" or a "person with blue eyes," and nobody objects to either descriptor. It is only when someone has decided that the characteristic being referred to is negative that suddenly people want to separate it from the person.
Spydyee2 10 months ago
@bunnylover4444
I know that autism is not a terrible thing, and that it does not make me any less a person. If other people have trouble remembering that autism doesn't make me any less a person, then that's their problem, not mine. Let them find a way to remind themselves that I'm a person, without trying to define an essential feature of my personhood as something bad. I am autistic because I accept and value myself the way I am.
Spydyee2 10 months ago
@bunnylover4444 I am an Autistic Person and I have Systemic Lupus Erythematosus I would really like them to find a cure for my Lupus but I am perfect fine with my Autism.
Spydyee2 10 months ago
@bunnylover4444 Do you truly want the child to be able to communicate with you? To what lengths are you willing to go to make that happen? Are you willing to learn to communicate with the child on his terms or does ha have to accommodate you? I am the mom of 2 Kanner Cuties that had significant speech delays. One is still predominately non-verbal. We use multiple communication techniques with him. PECS, Computer, VOD, and Sign Language. His speech improved when we shut up talking AT him.
Spydyee2 10 months ago
Yes, I had watched it, visited your website ad viewed a few of Leeann's videos. I think your creative juices were misdirected and ridiculous. What do you mean you used voices of people with autism?
bunnylover4444 11 months ago
@bunnylover4444 Voiceovers. It is when you hear someone speaking but don't see them on camera. If you don't like the videos then feel free to ignore them.
RethinkingAutism 11 months ago 2
Helping our loved ones with autism in any way we can, with everything we have and will be celebrating even the smallest accomplishment that merges our lives and our world with theirs.
bunnylover4444 11 months ago
@bunnylover4444 sorry you feel that way. The video features voiceovers from autistic people and was co-written by autistic people. Perhaps you will like the new video better for it features an autistic adult. It is called Rethinking Autism: Autism Support Group.
RethinkingAutism 11 months ago
You need to rethink what your motives are doing these videos about a subject you obviously know nothing about. Leeann is introduced on your website as not being "autistic" or having an "autistic" child. I think each of you should grace us with what you "are". A video, I am Bill, I am not "autistic" I am " ". I am Elizabeth, I am not "autistic" I am " ", and so on. Make sure you show us your Neurodiversities, you've shown your vanity and arrogance. While you are busy with that, we will be h
bunnylover4444 11 months ago
When my son is well enough to tell me he wants to have Autism, I will be happy to let him, and I will also know it is because of the work that I have done that he has a voice to tell me. Those with Asperger's are free to be themselves and I care nothing to fix them, but my son is not autistic, he suffers from AUTISM.
mwalkowi22 11 months ago 2
@mwalkowi22 I appreciate how you feel about this, but you are in no position to label a group to which you do not belong. If we want to call ourselves "autistic", then we have that right.
I realise it's more convenient for some parents to pretend that autism and Aspergers are so very different, because it means "those Aspies" couldn't possibly understand what they are going through. It's a shame, because I think many of us could, actually. It's all on a spectrum.
territorygal 10 months ago
@mwalkowi22 No your son is Autistic and will be for the rest of his life. You suffer from his Autism the same way my mother-in-law suffers from my children's autism. She is getting better but my kids are still autistic. It is not about "wanting" to have Autism it is about learning to love yourself just the way your creator made you.
Spydyee2 10 months ago
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Spydyee2 10 months ago
@mwalkowi22 The beginning of the song is something you might want to take to heart.
I believe the children are our are future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be
Perhaps instead of seeing your son as "suffering" from Autism you could teach him to love himself just the way he is.
Spydyee2 10 months ago
@mwalkowi22 Of course to be able to teach your son to love himself and accept himself you will have to stop suffering from his autism first and begin celebrating his neurodiversity. As the Autistic mother of 6 children diagnosed on the spectrum and the grandmother of 3 diagnosed on the spectrum I do have a slightly different perspective. And, Yes I do have Kanner Cuties that are non-verbal so I am a bit more than a condescending Aspie that has never dealt with "real Autism"
Spydyee2 10 months ago
As a father of an 6yr old Autistic child I don't need to re-think anything. I would give anything so my son doesn't have to struggle with this disability. Looking at him trying so hard to speak and say a few words and how frustrated he gets not being able to communicate what he needs.
I am not trying to "Cure" him but lets not pretend that Autism is a great thing. Autism Speaks should really find better ways to use their money than to make this video.
deliasc 11 months ago
@deliasc Speaking as an autistic person, let me just say one thing: Stop making YOUR CHILD'S DISABILITY about YOU. It isn't about you. It isn't about how "sad" you are because your child isn't "normal" enough for you. Autism Speaks is also a hated and reviled organization in the autism community. They work only to find "cures" to wipe this planet clean of people like me (people like YOUR SON) because autistic people are not "normal" enough. They speak for NOBODY but ableist assholes.
Ghouldilocks 10 months ago 19
@Ghouldilocks
PREACH IT!
I've grown tired of parents throwing their child on tv, showing videos of them struggling with meltdowns and then claiming their child is horrible. Those parents are horrible and the child does have feelings. Maybe if the parents would treat their child better, there would be a stronger will for the child.
I should know about that one. My parents did not believe in me.
Lisaannjoel 2 months ago
@Ghouldilocks agreed, autism speaks are a bunch of tyrants that need to burn in hell for calling autism a tragedy and putting us as a health crisis because we're sick compared to the likes of aids diabetes or cancer. autism is something that doesn't need to be "fixed" or "normalized" it's something that needs to be accepted for it differences in that person. autism speaks can go to hell for all eternity for calling autism a tragedy worse than a terminal disease.
avidgames91091 2 months ago
@deliasc I'm also the parent of two autistic children (one of whom is nonverbal). And I'm an autistic adult.
This video is not the viewpoint of autism parents. It's the viewpoint of autistic people. People who are actually on the spectrum. Adults who, like your son and mine, had huge difficulties as children and overcame them. Adults like me.
Recognise that you are on the outside looking in. This is not about how you feel about autism. It's about US. And it would do you well to listen.
territorygal 10 months ago
@deliasc This video is not made by Autism Speaks. I would faint if they even acknowledged that Autistic people had the ability to have feelings and concerns let alone actually give us a voice. You say you watch your son struggle with words and that he is frustrated by not being able to communicate. Why can't he communicate? Words are not the only way a person communicates. I am an Autistic parent of Autistic kids and we use PECS, Sign Language, Computers and many other ways to communicate.
Spydyee2 10 months ago
Thank you!!!!
MsPhoenix42 1 year ago
Thankyou thankyou thankyou. I am an individual with AS and I get really sick of that "OTHER" so -called-advocacy group and their videos that portray autism as the worst tragedy that befalls a parent. Thankyou for posting a positive message, by actual people with autism. It should be on all the tv stations.
xiphocostal 1 year ago 2
hello im 12 and i have a so what medium autism and there is nothing wrong just different strenghs and weaknesses
darkma4 1 year ago 2
I have Asperger's Syndrome and it's nice to see there are ordinary people who are smart enough to see through the lies genocidal aims of Autism Speaks.
ssjbriguy 1 year ago
Good going, fellow auties. I have AS, a type of autism.
For autism there is no real working cure,
but is it a good idea even if we can,
there are many things that I wish I can change,
but I don't want to change the man that I am. bridge of my first autism song, written by an autistic musician/singer/songwriter.
healthmusic 1 year ago
@JSchroet my son has autism not AS so he unable to speak for himself or to voice his views on how he is/feels. but he is just happy as he is. being autistic is the only way he knows 'how to be'. no one is asking for the other 99% of the world to change??! what we are asking for is acceptance, tolerance and respect for ppl with autism. isn't that what every person autistic or not deserves???
urbanangel13 1 year ago
love the vid!!! great positive message!! thank you!!! :) my son has autism & is a very unique individual who does not need curing!!!!!!!!!!!
urbanangel13 1 year ago
I have Asperger's It is a curse and a disorder.
I want to have functioning social skills,executive functioning and sensory integration.I hate being autistic and can NOT understand why being proud of having an ASD is a better course than treatment. If people with autism are 1% of the world then why make the other 99% of people change their ways? I guess it is the nature of the egocentricity and poorempathy that I need. I just feel that I should make the case that some people with AS want cures
JSchroet 1 year ago
@JSchroet Every one is different. Some people can handle being Autistic, and some people can not. It's just the way it is.
theamazinj 1 year ago
@theamazinj the people that can't usually can't because they keep trying to be something other than autistic. They have not yet accepted themselves and keep trying to "pass" as "normal" Back in the days of the Jim Crow laws many light skinned blacks could "pass" and many did. However, they were always looking over their shoulder living in fear of being discovered. That is no way to live. Be open. Be honest. Be Proud of who you are.
Spydyee2 10 months ago
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@JSchroet Why do we have to dislike ourselves because we are different and treated poorly by the rest of society. There was a time when African Americans were treated badly so should they have wanted a cure for having black skin? What about Gays and Lesbians? Being homosexual was considered a mental disorder for years. Should they want a cure? NO! Learn to love you. The only reason you dislike who you are is because you are trying to be something else. Learn to love yourself.
Spydyee2 10 months ago
@JSchroet Society has done a real number on your head. Tell me why being NT would be better than being an Aspie other than you could "fit in" with a society that is unwilling to accept you just the way you are. What if you were being ostracized because of your eye color or hair color. Would you dye your hair or buy colored contact lenses in order to change your eye color? I refuse to be that shallow. God made me an Aspie so it is my job to be the best Aspie I can be. I do not need curing.
Spydyee2 10 months ago
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@JSchroet Society has done a real number on your head. Tell me why being NT would be better than being an Aspie other than you could "fit in" with a society that is unwilling to accept you just the way you are. What if you were being ostracized because of your eye color or hair color. Would you dye your hair or buy colored contact lenses in order to change your eye color? I refuse to be that shallow. God made me an Aspie so it is my job to be the best Aspie I can be. I do not need curing.
Spydyee2 10 months ago
I worried about little things, but I delight in little things.
rayh2y 1 year ago
I worry about little things, but I delight in little things, too.
rayh2y 1 year ago
Looking at things from a Capitalistic Perspective. Yes, us Aspies and Autistic's are just as dirty a bunch of money grubbers as the rest of humanity......... "OWENS-ILLONOIS" the largest "GLASS" maker in the world could really hurt their "plastic manufacturing" rivals. By starting a campaign "to suggest" that packaging any "ACIDIC Food or Drink" in Plastic could possibly be effecting the rate of folks being born with autism........Us Aspies/Auties can be ruthless ass businessmen too, you know!!
narutofightindreamer 1 year ago
I'm Autistic / Asperger's, whatever you wish to refer to it as. And am perfectly capable of speaking for myself......................... I certainly hoping these "Pretty Boy's n Girls" aren't trying to speak for me.............................Admittadly, I'm a bit of a prideful bastard and hate nothing more than to be spoken for by another unless i request them to and don't even try to speak of me in third person!...............
narutofightindreamer 1 year ago
1:12 I don't get it... since when are people trying to prevent people who have autism from being born?
bubblesmakehimsmile 1 year ago
@bubblesmakehimsmile In the 1960s geneticists discovered a way to test for Downs Syndrome before a baby was born. They hailed this discovery as a way to "cure" Downs Syndrome. World wide the number of births of children with Downs syndrome has decreased dramatically. The methodology is the problem. 90% of all children prenatally diagnosed with Downs Syndrome are aborted. Autism is the next "catastrophic developmental illness" that they want to "cure." No Thank You
Spydyee2 10 months ago
@Spydyee2 So you are saying the "they" refers to the people trying to prevent people who have autism from being born are the parents since it is their decision, if their was a cure for autism, to abort? Do you think autism is a catastrophic developmental illness that parents would rather abort than have a child with autism?
bubblesmakehimsmile 10 months ago
@bubblesmakehimsmile no the "they" are the same type of "they that led to the T4 project in Nazi Germany. The people that see anyone different from the socially defined "norms" as a burden to society that would be better off dead. They, through medical professionals put enormous pressure on families to abort babies prenatally diagnosed with any "catastrophic developmental illness" (please notice the quotes that is their terminology not mine) First Downs Syndrome, Next Autism
Spydyee2 10 months ago
@bubblesmakehimsmile As far as would parents abort rather than have an autistic child Hmmmm A 90% abortion rate for Down Syndrome world wide and 97% in the good ole USA tells me that if there was a test for Autism like there is a test for Down Syndrome then yes the abortion rates for Autism would be comparable. If you wonder then go search for the number of Autistic people murdered each year by their parents. Does the name Katie McCarron mean anything to you? If not then Google it.
Spydyee2 10 months ago
Every one needs to watch this in order to open our lives to every one. Every one is different and unique. People on the Autism Spectrum have strengths/gifts. Most people in the world have been thinking too much as if it is a problem. This video should touch the soul of everyone. It makes any body realize we should be thinking of the solutions not the problem(s). Every one lives here for a reason! Let US/Autistics live here for our reason with our strengths. I watch this often. It's Great!
theamazinj 1 year ago
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CDFoakley's comment is so right.[I think some aspies are angry just because they are in denial of extreme cases. They will claim that those are very rare and the majority just have aspergers.] Which is not true. Neurodiversity is acceptable and should be. But there is a recovery from Autism, so why not?
fallsnroses 2 years ago
@fallsnroses
First of all most of us Aspies do not deny that our Autie brothers and sisters exist. Many of us are parents of Auties.
Second, there is no "Cure" and most "treatments" are abusive.
Third, If those of us who can speak out, don't speak out, then there are those who cannot speak out, that will never have a voice that really understands them.
We are not the ones in denial. It is the parents that have not gotten over not having their "perfect child" that are in denial.
Spydyee2 10 months ago
i agree a 100% with this video great work!
ivanova88 2 years ago
Do you guys acknowledge the other side of autism? The side shown in kgaccount videos? Or on my channel? Seems this is a side we don't hear about...so it works both ways...I agree with you...nobody should demand a cure...but at the same time, you can't ignore the brutal realities some families raising severely autistic children or adults are facing! Look at autism and self injurious behaviors where our son is smashing his fists into his head....that is what we want cured. We accept the autism
CDFoakley 2 years ago
@CDFoakley
Why you received 2 thumbs down is beyond me. Your son does represent a large percentage of the spectrum and he deserves to be recognized as well. He deserves a cure for his condition and anyone that would deny him that is cruel and inhuman.
christschool 2 years ago
I second this comment... I don't fully understand the meaning of this group, but there ARE traits that autistics (esp children) have that ARE harmful to themselves. A lot of it has to do with a simple lack of "common sense" as we know it. It's a lack of certain fears of specific dangers, things that could harm them. Because of this, they are tightly linked to a need for caregivers who will protect them from these elements of harm.
cgsbgs 2 years ago
Seems to me, there is a lot of "gray area" left unanswered with a video like this. Seems like there needs to be some kind of acknowledgement of those "dangers" that need addressing while making their point.
cgsbgs 2 years ago
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cgsbgs 2 years ago
The thing is though, these "dangers" do not explain everything about autism. They apply usually to the lower end of the spectrum or to children. The point of this video is to summarize the whole spectrum in a positive light, while at the same time mock celebrity promoters like Jenny McCarthy.
AnElephantThatPaints 2 years ago 5
Almost none of us ever said we were against treatments for autism. We just don't like using the word "cure" because that means eliminating autism COMPLETELY to make a child NT, which is wrong. But we would definitely want to rule out SIBs just as much as any parents would, so the kids could have a higher quality life. We also agree that there needs to be some form of communication beyond tantrums and violent approaches. But you are right that there is a lot of bias towards HFA and assets.
AnElephantThatPaints 2 years ago
@CDFoakley
Just so you know, I keep trying to give you thumbs up
AnElephantThatPaints 2 years ago
Thanks, that's sweet of you! I'm really amazed how angry some people are with me about the videos I've posted of my son's self injury and severe autism...it's not like I'm promoting this, I was just so isolated for so long with my son's severe autism I almost went crazy because I thought nobody would ever understand what we went through, and then I discovered you tube...and saw other cases of severe autism and spoke with HF aspergers and autistic persons that got it.....others are angry at me...
CDFoakley 2 years ago
I think some aspies are angry just because they are in denial of extreme cases. They will claim that those are very rare and the majority just have aspergers. I don't really buy that, even though I agree that the "80% of autistics are mentally retarded" claim is a 1995 myth.
AnElephantThatPaints 2 years ago
@AnElephantThatPaints I'm not angry. I'm pissed off. People with Fragile X syndrome, Rett syndrome, ADHD, PDD-NOS, etc we all have a genetic disorder and the only cure is teaching us. Other then that this whole thing of a cure that pseudo-science came up with is wrong.
Epica124 1 year ago
@AnElephantThatPaints You can't cure a genetic problem. Sense you can't cure a genetic problem what are you going to do. Why not stop act like we are all dumb and can't think or do anything. Maybe if you stepped back you would see that there is a lot we can do it just take us more time then most people.
Epica124 1 year ago
@Epica124 I am an autitstic person, I am not acting like any of you are dumb, I am just saying that we cannot ignore the realities of severe autism. But yes, there are many amazing things autistics can do, and I actually think many of the LFA kids have locked autistic abilities that can be uncovered.
AnElephantThatPaints 1 year ago
@AnElephantThatPaints As an aspie, I agree that the realities of severe autism is something that cannot be ignored. However, at the same time there also needs to be attention brought to the less severe forms as well. Maybe there should be more focus what can be done to uncover the locked autistic abilities that LFA kids have.
flawedbeauty82 1 year ago
@Epica124 It can be or not genetic, it is still unknown. please watch this video's title, it might explain a lot
Autism Diet: Donna Gates & Dr. Campbell-McBride (1 of 6)
muchambrosia 1 year ago
@muchambrosia You need to read the latest research. It is genetic. There are a series of repeats on numerous genes and these repeats are common to every person in a genetic study of families with multiple cases of diagnosed Autism int he family. It is not a single gene like Downs syndrome. it is a series of pattern repeats on multiple genes that affect numerous things. However, it is there in every autistic person in the study.
Diets help some of the co-morbidities of autism but not the autism.
Spydyee2 10 months ago
@CDFoakley As much as it pains me to say this while you're son has severe autism that does not mean he can't get help. There are groups and people out there who have worked hard to understand what autism is. They can help you're son the right way by knowing what his world is like and what he is thinking.
Epica124 1 year ago
@CDFoakley You're sons life is not over. He just needs help from the right people. Don't by into the lies of the media says.
Epica124 1 year ago
@Epica124 Thank you. I see sparks of hope and progress in spurts. I know my son is in a different world than we can ever understand and our goal is to help him. It's hard to find people who truly understand this side of spectrum, since it's so shocking. However, he does show signs of incredible potential. He can go from 2 weeks of extreme sib over a blister on feet to 2 weeks of mapping out complex routes around the shopping mall and grabbing things off shelf and holding them....
CDFoakley 1 year ago
@CDFoakley At lest you found out he had it when he was younger. I never even knew I was on the spectrum until I was in my late 20's. I don't even know what part of me is which and a lot of that has to do with the fact that I have aspergers which is not as bad as full on Autism. But still I have wore a mask most of my life.
Epica124 1 year ago
@CDFoakley When I say mask I mean more in the way I acted.
Epica124 1 year ago
@CDFoakley You need to figure out why your son is on sensory overload and "Cure" that. What is overloading his senses. I am an Aspie mom of 6 kids on the spectrum I have a child who is self injurious when she is on sensory overload. We simply keep this from occurring. We had to determine her triggers and keep her away from them. Of course it was easier for us since some of her triggers are our triggers also. He doesn't need curing his environment does. If you want real help let me know.
Spydyee2 10 months ago
Very nice! I am the mom of an 11 yr old aspie...and I don't to "cure" him. There is NOTHING WRONG with him. He is just different. Just like someone who is black, asian, caucasian, indian etc. are different from each other. None of them have something WRONG. STOP trying to change my kid and love him for who he is!
NokneesLooney 2 years ago 9
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Yetti0: Autism is not a new race! That is like saying schizophrenia is a "new race" As far as the correlation, look up what the definition of correlation is when it pertains to research... you are obviously poorly educated
MsLibramom 2 years ago
You need to understand the difference between autism and schizophrenia to understand what Yetti0 is saying. One is a result of a psychological spectrum value, the other is a result of the triad of imbalances. It would be like saying neurotypical is a result of imbalance, not of genetic factors. It's confused and complicated, but can be easily simplified out with the right model to think of it.
drew999999999 2 years ago 2
@MsLibramom Actually there are enough genetic repeats that if we were frogs, lizards, birds, or dogs we would be a new subspecies but because Homo Sapiens Sapiens are so egotistical they cannot admit that there is any other subspecies of Homo Sapiens but them. They managed to annihilate all other members of the genus Homo so it is no wonder that they are unwilling to accept a new subspecies. (we are actually not new but that is a topic for a different place)
Spydyee2 10 months ago
If there is a cure for being asian, caucasion, black, native american then you will have a cure for autism. We are a new race of people... no link to vaccines.
Yetti0 2 years ago
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If you do not want to know what caused Autism for you that is fine but for a woman such as myself that plans to have more children, I would like to know why there is such a DRAMATIC increase of people with autism. As for the research that states that vaccines are NOT the cause, you really need to find out who is funding the research. At minimum, there is a definite correlation between the extreme increase of vaccines that we give children and the increase of children w/ autism.
MsLibramom 2 years ago
MS Libramom.. I am a 58 yr old female aspie.. diagnosed only 2 yrs ago.. I have two friends on the spectrum who are refusing to have it officially diagnosed because of groups like Autism speaks... the DRAMATIC increase is elementary my dear MS Libramom..we older ones have not been diagnosed.. people are just now beginning to diagnose children so the numbers look like increasing when in reality..we are just accounting for all of us, which were not accounted for before...or is that too hard ?
Yetti0 2 years ago 4
There is ABSOLUTELY no correlation bettween vaccines and AUtism... UK and Swedish studies have proven it... its coincidence of the age... I never had vaccines and I am on the spectrum as was my mom, grandmother , aunts uncles and cousins..its genetic..
Yetti0 2 years ago 13
@Yetti0 My son had no vaccines either, but I have severe candidiasis while pregnant and so did my mom, check this title on you tube, it can explain a lot:
Autism Diet: Donna Gates & Dr. Campbell-McBride (1 of 6)
muchambrosia 1 year ago
@Yetti0 I was born before MMR. I have AS, and nearly died from mumps. People need to think about that when they refuse to have their kids vaccinated.
xiphocostal 1 year ago
@xiphocostal And yet you are fully recovered from mumps. NEARLY dying from anything is frightening, but it does not compare to serious lifelong disability.
morepuppies 11 months ago
@morepuppies Mumps can cause serious lifelong disability, so can measles. vaccinations do not cause autism.
xiphocostal 11 months ago
@morepuppies O yeah , did I mention both measles and mumps can kill you? Assuming vaccinations did cause autism (which we know they don't) Are you saying you would rather have a dead kid than an autistic one? Or would you rather have a disabled kid, just so long as he isn't autistic? How do you know I am fully recovered?Your comment is wrong on so many levels.
xiphocostal 10 months ago
@MsLibramom
Autism spectrum disorders have not always been included as unique diagnostic conditions in the DSM. Through the years, the diagnostic criteria has been refined.
No Clinician can diagnose something that is not included in this book. Technically if it isn't in the book it does not exist. Autism was considered to be a symptom of Schizophrenia and not a separate disorder until the DSM III was published. That was 1980.
Spydyee2 10 months ago
@MsLibramom
Asperger's Syndrome was not added to the DSM until the DSM IV was published which was 1994. By the time Asperger's was added I already had 6 of my nine children and every one of them are Aspies. The older ones were not diagnosed as children and the youngest of that group was not diagnosed until he was 11. I was diagnosed at 40+ years old because I could not have been diagnosed as a child. The only epidemic is a diagnostic epidemic.
Spydyee2 10 months ago
@MsLibramom Autism Speaks was one of the major funding sources as well as Duke University, the University of North Carolina, USC, Johns Hopkins, and two other universities that I can't remember right now. The government grants to fund the research went through Autism Speaks. Please understand that Autism Speaks has been trying to link this to vaccines and when the research proved them wrong they had to do some serious adjustments of their "platform"
Spydyee2 10 months ago
As a final note, someone that was representative of me would show up on video not making eye contact or smiling. They'd say they applied to hundreds of jobs with nobody ever calling back. That they wasted 4 perilous years at college. And that women make a joke of being with him, as if it's the worst thing imaginable and they should band together to prevent it. For the most part my people think the world hasn't delivered on the promises it made to us early on to make us obey.
Fakkensevudo 2 years ago
If you really want to help autistics, support what I think is a standard ideal that has been long lost. That anyone who is willing to work at it should be able to earn a living wage and have sex. Not completely shut out of it and the mere existence of our efforts denied let alone are these efforts rewarded.
But right now your startup group is just roughing it at lesser issues than addressing this real problem. We don't want inclusion, we want sex partners and to get out of our parents' houses.
Fakkensevudo 2 years ago
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Try looking for fat, ugly girls when the bars are closing. If nobody else is drunk enough to want them, you might get lucky.
foresam 2 years ago
@Fakkensevudo Well from one Aspie to another Get off your duff and advocate for change. I am and Aspie female. I am married to an Aspie man and we have made two beautiful Kanner Autistic kids together (that addresses the whole sex thing) We are active advocates for ourselves and our children. We run our own business and are successful enough that we are not living with our parents. You do have to stretch to your limits and meet the NT world halfway.
Spydyee2 10 months ago
And otherwise reduce their dependence on money, which the conformist system monopolizes. There is also a behemoth tax system that strongly encourages a low-income, low expenditure way of life. I live on $6k a year.
The system isn't going to change because it puts its friends into wealth that they blow on SUVs, big houses and clothes. Everyone else - autistics, war veterans, minorities, thought criminals - are dumped by the wayside and are lucky if they can get subsistence wages.
Fakkensevudo 2 years ago
Not the kind of superficial image you try to present. Our culture is one of efficiency, we do things that make the world turn that nobody appreciates, because we're not conformist.
Don't even bother with inclusive education. There are many other classes of people that they abuse, better to have other options like homeschool rather than force conformists to be reasonable.
Good solutions are those that reduce dependence on unreliable human beings. Teach autistics how to do things themselves.
Fakkensevudo 2 years ago
At least to me when you use sex in advertising and talk about meaningless things like neurodiversity and "inclusion" it is falling on deaf ears
The real issues facing people with autism is that they can't get jobs or have sex. There will be no "problem" for us if we could have a normal life and weren't subjected to childhood trauma.
And it doesn't help that you have to lie to get that normal life either. And they call us disabled...
The real heroes of the world are unshaved and poor.
Fakkensevudo 2 years ago
You are very optimistic! *sarcasm*
AnElephantThatPaints 2 years ago
Thank You for doing this video. I am aspie too. demanding an autistic to take a cure is like demanding a person born deaf to get a cochlear implant. How can we be socially disabled if we never had the ability to understand social situations in the first place? I have a deaf friend. when she is around the hearing, she does not stop being deaf any more than I stop being hearing when I'm around her and her deaf friends. We are able to speak for ourselves. Just in a different language.
aspietoo76 2 years ago 2
Excellent!
Signed,
Aspie who can speak for herself
tamathy 2 years ago 3
As an aspie myself, I can very much relate to what they are saying. Thanks so much for posting!
aspyrichy 2 years ago
Great Video!
theamazinj 2 years ago
Wanted to let you know that when I posted this on my personal (read: not my advocacy) blog, one of my friends commented that she thought it should show on all the News Channels.
nicocoer 2 years ago
That would be wonderful! I'll be working on it.
RethinkingAutism 2 years ago
You do not then know what Autism and Autism Speaks are truly all about. ASAN is an Aspergers Autism Speaks hate group... Grow up and do some research...
renaissanceknight 2 years ago
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paulwady 2 years ago
NTs are like weeds in a garden, they grow anywhere, without rain or even sun, they accumulate together,
Aspies however are like an exotic rare species of plant that will only grow in certain climates,
You can find Aspies sometimes overwhelmed in a garden by weeds, pushed aside as the weeds take over all the nutrients from the soil. The weeds accumulate together in clumps feeding off each other. Make sure you weed every day. For best results.
tweena3 2 years ago
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paulwady 2 years ago
Nice visual :)
nagaempress 2 years ago
I'm glad top see this up! :D
nicocoer 2 years ago
arent all the speakers here actors or voice-actors?
how is that autistics speaking?
BumsenDK 2 years ago
All of the voiceover actors are autistic. So yes, there are autistics speaking.
RethinkingAutism 2 years ago 4
The Voice Overs were all Autistics. I was one of them (I'm Savannah offline, Though my middle name is Nico so most of my family/friends of my family call me Nico), and am friends with some of the others.
nicocoer 2 years ago 4
Thank you for doing this. So often our voices are not heard! Thank you for sharing yours!
nagaempress 2 years ago
i've posted this vid on twitter several times already and plan on doing it a million times more, ppl need to see that this is REAL autism awareness! ty so much for making this! :)
Trishinspace 2 years ago 2
yes! now this is what people should be seeing!
saddylicious 2 years ago
YES! Time to Shift the Paradigm. One video, one person at a time. Thanks for the video.
gahana108 2 years ago
Awesome. Thank you.
elkepelka 2 years ago
i've e-mailed you a closed-caption file for this-- this thing *needs* to be made as accessible as possible, unlike a certain other organization's video that's far better on mute. :)
codeman38 2 years ago 3
Thank you so much!
RethinkingAutism 2 years ago
Wonderful, thank you!
nbinghi 2 years ago
Excellent!
Thank YOU!
dkmnow 2 years ago 2