Hi there! Huge fan of yours, here. I had two questions: I know that Autism Speaks is a terrible organization and should not be supported but do you mind explaining why exactly? I fully agree that it shouldn’t be supported but I’m not sure on the exact facts of why. Follow up question: How can I approach people who do support the organization and calmly explain to them why they should be supporting different organizations? Thank you and I LOVE your blog! 💚🍃💐🌲
Gets ready because this is a plants rants!
Thanks you too! Ones of the most icky things Autism Speaks does is rights after it forms it talks about autism in negatives terms likes it is the most worse things to happens to a family. Autistic people was not regards as people, but as their autism and their struggles likes all they are is behaviors and suffers. Families with autistic people in them are describes as being in battles against a crisis and not for reals alive– which reminds me of the times on Halfworld when I sits in the same rooms as lots of people and listens to them debates on whether or not they believes I am conscious or sentient, so I knows how that feels!
Autism Speaks compares an autism diagnosis to an epidemics that is more prevails than cancers, AIDS and diabetes as if being autistic is worse than those. Cancers, diabetes and AIDS are sicknesses that gets worse or makes you gets dead if they are not treats, so the messages of that is the nasty “developments windows” where you has to treats your child with therapy to makes them looks not-autistic while they are small or they will looks likes that guys over there– and then Autism Speaks points to somebody likes me as a scapegoats for “most worse cases scenarios” and how is that fairs to me and people likes me?
Then they describes autistic children as being kidnaps or not there as if they are empty shells without their Spirits in their eyes. Ones of the founders gives a speech in a Terra holy places where she makes herself out to be a holy figures who is here to “purify” the “unclean” people of society who has a diseases associates with sins and being bad far back in Terra’s Christians history. (Cool story bros!)
The others icky things they does in the pasts includes gives platforms to a parents who says she wish she could drives off a bridges with her autistic child but doesn’t because of her not-autistic child. They are still ties to a bad places calls the JRC where autistic or disables people faces the kinds of abuses I faces on Halfworld, and more worse. They push the ABA that is very bad for autistic children to goes through.
They contributes to all kinds of stigmas about autism in the pasts and bad Autism Parents™ perpetuates the stigmas.I thinks Autism Speaks has changes a little bits about how they talks about autism to be less negatives. They doesn’t acknowledges the very bad harms they does to autistic people in the pasts, and instead of apologizes they try to pretends it never happens and acts likes autistic people speaks against them are nothing more than internet trolls or hecklers. That entire paragraphs is how Autism Speaks gaslights the autistic community!
Lots of their funds is goes to research that is not helps autistic people rights now. Some of the research has a eugenics flavors that is very not nice. Autism Speaks replaces “cures” with “solutions” but they changes a words and not the messages itself. They still sees autism as a bad things to removes, prevents or gets rids of. The money anybody gives to Autism Speaks is spends on advertises, markets, research, salary, travels, caters, fundraisers and what little bits is lefts is for services for autistic people now.
They could opens homes for respites cares for autistic people who needs lots of helps so their caregivers can rests. They can buys lots of communicates devices for nonverbal autistic people. They can funds educations caters to how autistic people learns. They can helps autistic people gets access to medicals cares. BUT NO, they spends the most smalls amounts on us and puts everything into itself and research that is not does anything! Research to understands how autism affects the brains and how autistic brains grows and matures is goods. We doesn’t completes understands how autism manifests and learns that is goods to does, but research to understands and research to prevents are very opposites and Autism Speaks is does research to prevents!
If that isn’t bad enough, Autism Speaks doesn’t has any reals autistic leaders! They has tokens autistic people but a very important autistic person names John Elder Robinson dumps them because he was disgusts by how Autism Speaks is runs and how little it is helps autistic people. Autism Speaks claims it knows what we needs betters than we do. That means Autism Speaks focuses more on not-autistic people and how they are affects by autism, which means autistic people are throws to the sides as spectators in our own story!
Now you has all the lights it up blues and awareness shits! Autism Speaks uses the words “acceptances” but it is not trues acceptances. They tells you to wears blues to shows how autism aware you are but all the awareness does is points out that autism exists and wow looks at how weird autistic people are! That is all it means. It doesn’t says we are people who are wires differences, it says we are weird and we only deserves to gets tolerates until we can gets rescues and fix by the big blues puzzle pieces.
The ways Autism Speaks uses “acceptances” says you should accepts that your child has an autism diagnosis but not accepts the autism itself. That is likes somebody says they should accepts that I has barks and leafs but they shouldn’t accepts that I am a plants! That is not autism acceptances, reals acceptances is the wholes person!
I thinks the bests ways to talks to somebody about Autism Speaks is to says you thinks it is neat that they wants to helps autistic people. Then you tells them Autism Speaks is actual not that goods and being popular and able to throws big extravaganzas all overs the worlds doesn’t always means it is the bests. Most people doesn’t likes their moneys gets mess with, so starts out by states that Autism Speaks barely uses any of its donations to helps autistic people who needs it now.
Then goes into the controversy and how they are very bad to autistic people. The moneys parts will sticks and talks about how they are very negatives about autism shows the person you are warns that they are throws their moneys down a blacks holes. Then you finish up with tells them about ASAN or AWNN being charity leads by autistic people who are here for the autistic community that is alive rights now. After that, tells them the colors of Autism Acceptances is reds and suggests they wears reds likes Rocket!
http://autisticswanttosay.blogspot.co.uk/
http://tiny.cc/BoycottAutismSpeaks
https://neurodivergentrebel.com/2018/03/05/autism-martyr-parents/
https://neurodivergentrebel.com/2018/02/10/meltdown-videos/
https://visualvox.wordpress.com/2017/04/02/why-are-non-verbal-children-so-problematic-for-their-parents-and-society/
https://theestablishment.co/no-im-not-glamorizing-my-autism-f56c998efb0a
https://theestablishment.co/when-youre-autistic-abuse-is-considered-love-84eea4011844
http://blogs.plos.org/neurotribes/2016/04/04/autism-awareness-is-not-enough-heres-how-to-change-the-world/
https://kpagination.wordpress.com/autism-resources/autism-acceptance-month-resources/
http://autisticadvocacy.org/
https://autismwomensnetwork.org/
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