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Seriously. I'm really scared at how far their campaigns are going. Shit like Adam Lanza and Elliot Rodger (the latter of whom I actually sympathize with somewhat) isn't helping us either.
The whole agenda of Autism SpeaKKKs is basically meant to dehumanize us. We're "diseased" and "troubled". Their programs are aimed at brainwashing extrovert NTs and they're lead by NTs.
Imagine if the KKK were actually an organization that promoted forced intermarriage "for the better of American society in order for no more suffering minorities" or other crap like that. That's what Autism SpeaKKKs is.
Support the #notMSSNG hashtag. I'm scared these fuckers will invade high schools and truly cause hell (and they have to an extent; can't wait to play Ice Cube's "The Predator" or 2Pac's "2Pacalypse Now" if they even DARE come near my school).
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For anyone who remembers me going on an archive binge: Thank you all. I know I ended it being a drama queen, I don't really agree with the ideology anymore, and I'm really not the same person I was (I went through a neopagan phase!) but still this site was the first online community I was in. I graduated from school and turned 18. Time flies. KFC Nyan Cat, June 20, 2019.
I'm not even sure what label is accurate for me, given that I straddle the line between autistic and schizotypal. But in general, really most autistic/people with Asperger syndrome generally just think differently. Most of us aren't comfortable in large social settings/gatherings, we tend to be a lot more shy, and overall at lot more introverted (although basic introversion and autism are pretty damn different). Our interests may be different as well as most importantly, we're pretty bad at big, organized, structures.
The media, if they find anything not normal about someone, they blow it out of proportion. Mass murder went to the gun range (but he didn't go in 10 years) "Oh the guns made him go on a killing spree" different murder played GTA V for a little bit each weekend "oh it was his violent video games that made him go on a killing spree." He was autistic, " oh it was his autism that made him do a killing spree"
And god help you if you are like me: Autisic, plays violent video games, and is pretty pro-gun (I own a firearm) but I'll never consider shooting up some place.
I have AS, and autism speakkks can go die in a hole while having flaming gasoline pourded on them
What do they do that's so bad? I demand sauce. I was under the impression they were working toward a cure, which seems to me to be a perfectly understandable goal considering the more debilitating forms of autism that exists.
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Have you ever seen commercials for Autism Speaks? They're pretty damn degrading (such as a mother on the verge of committing suicide due to her autistic daughter, but only staying on earth for her NT daughter). In essence, the message is that "autism only does bad things to our society, it must be wiped out!".
The whole "cure autism" thing isn't really gonna do jack shit other than wipe out more diverse ways of thinking. Yeah, there are definitely worse cases of autism, but really there are many who don't "suffer". In the end, "curing autism" is a lot darker than it seems, especially given its bad rap.
It's run by people who don't have Autism, yet it claims to "help" Autistic kids.
It automatically assumes anyone with Autism can't think for themselves and are stupid which is a lie.
It tries to make money off of donations and to help fund BS research against autistic people rather than provide them with social and emotional support which they need.
All in all, Autism Speaks is a BS organization that tries to make money off of parents who think their child is mentally incapable of complex tasks and taking care of themselves. It is analogous to scientific racism from the eighteenth century which is now considered a fraud and a cry against human rights.
(This post was last modified: 12-28-2014 10:51 AM by Dikont5.)
Y'know, I can never tell who's autistic, gay, depressed, hindu, muslim, christian, or [insert any description which is blown out of proportion by media and society] just by looking at the posts. All of you sound like intelligent, awesome people who are disgusted by the stupidity of our species. Don't let the bullshit stifle the spark in your soul.
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(12-30-2014 11:19 PM)Rule_BreakerXVIII Wrote: Y'know, I can never tell who's autistic, gay, depressed, hindu, muslim, christian, or [insert any description which is blown out of proportion by media and society] just by looking at the posts. All of you sound like intelligent, awesome people who are disgusted by the stupidity of our species. Don't let the bullshit stifle the spark in your soul.
Yeah, and you probably wouldn't be able to tell who's black by looking at the posts, either. You wouldn't literally see that anyone was gay, in real life, either - it's not like red hair, which is kinda obvious.
Though you probably should be able to tell that I'm on the spectrum by looking at my posts.
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One thing (among many others) school couldn't teach you.
They're also anti-vax. That's bad enough already. The organization reeks of patronizing paternalism, which is also apparent in the fact that not only are none of the heads of the board autistic, but that they have an active policy that explicitly bans the election of an autistic person to the board.
"Nothing about us without us!"
Fuck autism speaKKKs.
And yes, I have Asperger's as well.
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(01-14-2015 08:46 PM)Sociopath Wrote: They're also anti-vax. That's bad enough already. The organization reeks of patronizing paternalism, which is also apparent in the fact that not only are none of the heads of the board autistic, but that they have an active policy that explicitly bans the election of an autistic person to the board.
"Nothing about us without us!"
Fuck autism speaKKKs.
And yes, I have Asperger's as well.
Wait...I knew nothing about this ban? The anti-vax thing is just....okay, fine, let's assume that vaccines cause autism for a moment. They don't but let's pretend they do. I still think that no matter how hard you would personally find raising a child on the spectrum, it is far better than attending your child's funeral!
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Yeah, Autism Speaks is "trying to help" autistic people. Bullshit. Really they are saying it (and AS) are diseases and they need to be cured. No, they don't.
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I personally don't know much about Autism, I don't know anyone with Autism.
I have never thought of Autism as a disease or a mental illness. Correct me if i'm wrong but isn't autism just the way the brain developed? (Please correct me if i'm wrong!!!) And I'm pretty sure you can't change the way a persons brain has developed.
But any ways back to Autism Speaks. I have seen some of their commercials and stuff, I believe that the only thing Autism Speaks is doing is:
-Spreading Ignorance
-Autism Speaks is responsible for the atrocity known as “I am Autism”, a short film produced by the same person who directed the 3rd Harry Potter movie (yes, really) and features an ominous voice saying things like “I am autism…I know where you live…I work faster than pediatric AIDS, cancer, and diabetes combined…I will make sure your marriage fails.”
-Autism Speaks does not have a single autistic member on their board.
-Autism Speaks only spends 4% of their budget on “family services”
I have reasons why Autism Speaks is bad but i'm keeping it short.
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(03-26-2015 07:22 AM)Missile Wrote: I haven't seen an Autism Speaks commercial
I have seen most of their commericials and short animations and they are pretty bleh. but any ways here is one of their commercials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tnq1iRjfvY
(This post was last modified: 03-26-2015 02:55 PM by justlikemars.)
I saw one of them - it was the mother who was complaining about not being able to leave her autistic child alone while she went to a cocktail party. The child in question was somewhere between 3 and 6.
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The autism spectrum is ... well, it depends on who you ask. Legally, it's a disability. Schools/College...either a learning disability or a communication disability. And it just gets more complicated from there.
There is a hypothesis that the autism spectrum originates in an extreme maleness of brain.
As for autism speaks....yeah, don't go there. You can't cure autism any more than you can cure Jewishness.
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(03-30-2015 10:44 PM)Trekkie_Aspie Wrote: I saw one of them - it was the mother who was complaining about not being able to leave her autistic child alone while she went to a cocktail party. The child in question was somewhere between 3 and 6.
Leaving a 3-6 year old, home alone is one of the stupidest ideas that I ever heard of. What channel do you find the commercials on? I don't watch TV very frequently anyway
In case some of you forgot, there's people on the autistic spectrum that can't feed themselves or wipe their own asses. I assume this is what is referred to when someone speaks of curing it. Now, whether or not there's actually something to be cured.. That's a different story. Nobody knows, but it's certainly worth looking into.
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I never really looked into my "low functioning" counterparts
I really don't see how someone could sympathize with Eillot Rodger. He was racist and sexist
(03-30-2015 10:44 PM)Trekkie_Aspie Wrote: I saw one of them - it was the mother who was complaining about not being able to leave her autistic child alone while she went to a cocktail party. The child in question was somewhere between 3 and 6
Leaving a 3-6 year old, home alone is one of the stupidest ideas that I ever heard of. What channel do you find the commercials on? I don't watch TV very frequently anyway
Yeah. It wasn't on a channel, it was on some website. Not sure if youtube or their site. I just watched out of morbid curiosity and they built it up so that I was expecting someone of like, 12, at the least.
I mean, I can see leaving a 6 y/o home alone while you run and get milk, maybe. But a cocktail party is just bizarre.
Quote:In case some of you forgot, there's people on the autistic spectrum that can't feed themselves or wipe their own asses. I assume this is what is referred to when someone speaks of curing it. Now, whether or not there's actually something to be cured.. That's a different story. Nobody knows, but it's certainly worth looking into.
I haven't forgotten that but .... using autism-speaks method as 'cures' leads to some very uncomfortable places very fast. And I mean...yes, there are but unless you have some way of knowing in advance, I'm not sure that's a fair point.
And you would have to know in advance, because their 'cure' is not a cure - it is prevention of babies on the spectrum being born.
Now, if it was an actual cure, that might be different.
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Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes."The Fourth Prose, 1930.
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The whole 'Autism community' is a load of shit. There seems to be a stupid trend lately that refers to literally any group of people and state that there's a 'community' of them. Gay community, black community, female community, left-handed community, alcoholic community, fuckin' anything is now a community apparently.
All autism-related charities have been total wank from my experience, they provide condescending, psuedo-scientific 'help' that fucks people over. I remember being forced to have some kind of asperger's guidance counsellor (Although the end of asperger's as an actual condition means I don't have shit, so fuck you) who would teach me about social garbage (Essentially act condescending and force me to work through shit I already knew like what metaphors were, to the extent that I simply fucked with them most of the time and paid no attention to them). They'd also give talks about how bullying is rlly bad guiz and that autism cannot be cured or fixed by anything, including the idea that it can't be grown out of (Simply bullshit).
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