Autism Speaks And Why They Are Terrible

incognito—amadeus:

notasenator:

withoutaqualmofconscience:

neednothavehappenedtobetrue:

So apparently our school is doing something with Autism Speaks in April. I blurted “Autism Speaks is super terrible” and got stares.

I would like to make sure my school isn’t accidentally doing something super terrible. Dear Tumblr, can you help me find some links explaining the extreme terribleness of Autism Speaks?

Apparently there are no links in asks. WTF is that?

http://autisticspeaks.wordpress.com/ and http://www.autism-hub.co.uk/autism-speaks-dont-speak-for-me/index.php (it’s a petition, but it has facts) and http://notautismspeaks.tk/ ((New Zeland Domain, hense .tk )) 

Anyway, these are more sites apart from the ones I gave you in my reply.

Google is mah frand.  

This is just good info for other people too.

Autism Speaks has, for years, been funneling money into trying to connect vaccines with autism, even as they state on their webpage that it is not their goal. A few years ago, they had a number of high-profile resignations because of this.

Good information. A few parts of Autism Speaks have good intentions, but they are most definitely not the most pious or ethical groups.

They also don’t allow people on the spectrum on their top board, and if I recall correctly, have been looking to “cure” Autism.

It’s not an Autism support group- it’s an Autism let’s-get-rid-of-it group.

Jan 27. 38 Notes.

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    well this is grose
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  10. aelaughingalonewithnekokiyo reblogged this from fuzzlesan and added:
    Oh wow, this is the most offensive thing.
  11. fuzzlesan reblogged this from parasite-baka-kitten and added:
    The guy who initially linked autism with vaccines? He was ousted as a fraud. And what’s worse about this is that one of...
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    illness, god dammit -_- And...don’t help Holy shit
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    Holy crap… Being autistic myself, I’m glad I haven’t met any of them. o_o’
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  16. litemagic reblogged this from notasenator and added:
    man i knew they were awful but not THIS awful jesus
  17. notasenator reblogged this from theglubbening and added:
    Here’s one person’s account of their experience with Autism Speaks.
  18. theglubbening reblogged this from notasenator and added:
    I’d like to put out there that years ago, I had a “friend” that said he had low-functioning autism (hint: He MIGHT have...
  19. ukuzihs reblogged this from incognito--amadeus and added:
    incognito—amadeus:...They also don’t allow people on the spectrum on their top board, and...
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  21. miaoumaiden reblogged this from neednothavehappenedtobetrue and added:
    short somethings: http://www.squidoo.com/autistics-speak-for-themselves...
  22. incognito--amadeus reblogged this from notasenator and added:
    Good information. A few parts of Autism Speaks have good intentions, but they are most definitely not the most pious or...
  23. notasenator reblogged this from withoutaqualmofconscience and added:
    This is just good info for other people too. Autism Speaks has, for years, been funneling money into trying to connect...
  24. sevetirdenuit said: There’s some posts about it in the #autism speaks tag, like fyeahautismspectrum.tum… or healthmad.com/mental-… ?
  25. withoutaqualmofconscience reblogged this from neednothavehappenedtobetrue and added:
    Apparently there are no links...that? //autisticspeaks.wordpress.com/
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