Why You Shouldn't Walk for Autism Speaks

Why you should walk away from the Autism Speaks walk.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• autism
• walk now for autism
• autism walk
• autism speaks

[Glyth1]

Autism Speaks , It Speaks Against Autism it does not speak for us.

Thank you

[AutismSpeaksV1ds]

A very informitive truthful video, thank you for making and helping to spread some anti-Autism Speaks awareness.

[BaltoLoneWoolf]

Where were they going that cost so much for travel? Were all of the members taking a trip to Disney World? Why would I want a cure for autism? So I can have more greedy, ableist NT's running this planet? Hell no. I can't believe it cost two million more dollars for promoting ads (i.e. I Am Autism). That money should be used for feeding the homeless, or better yet, making services to make autistic lives better.

[BaltoLoneWoolf]

Dang! Two million dollars just for travel?!? And to think, all of that money should havae gone for something worth donating, like food, water, and education in Third World countries, or trying to cure cancer. Plus, the rest of the money goes to genocide towards us. NO support for autistic people and their families whatsoever. Go away, Autism Speaks. Stop trying to rob the community's money over irrelevant stuff and trying to wipe us out.

[News5TV]

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[aspie182]

@mrlogek If you support Autism Speaks, get ready for your son to hate your guts when he is twenty-eight. My parents are already having that kind of experience. Yes, you all need to be educated, but there is a very big difference between being educated and misinformed. Autism Speaks only ever deals in the latter.

[abinashi1]

This group should be in Jail! Living off the pain of Autistic families... despicable!

[aspie182]

@tmservo It is also worth noting that a lot of what gets called disability these days is a matter of societal attitude. I cannot remember who said it first, but I always think in terms of the reversion test. If there were a ratio of one normie for every 150 autistic individuals, normies would not only be considered very disabled, but they would end up knowing what it is like to live cheek by jowl with discrimination and fear every day.

[tmservo]

@anastassiaflorine First, I do view it as a real disability. I grant that for some it isn't. Then again, someone who has a hardened compulsion to do serious physical harm to himself.. that is a disability. But I think that htere is a misnomer here that disability = horrible. As I said, I grew up in a household of someone physically disabled. Being disabled isn't the same as saying "not worth anything".  Disabled people of all sorts are fantastic - just different.

[nooogetta]

@anastassiaflorine

Autism Speaks wants to pay people to walk around with people who aren't terrible socially adept, and tell them what to say. What I find absurd is that the people who aren't terribly socially adept are probably marvelous engineers and artists and musicians, but they can't make a living because the people who control the purse strings these days, for the most part, value the ability to schmooze above all else.

[anastassiaflorine]

@nooogetta I'm glad you knw about the genocide. However, many many organizations treat people like there is more wrong about them than right, focusing on the bad and not on the talents they have that make up for it. that is what we are worried about.