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 Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation   Topic: Boycotting businesses who support Autism Speaks

Smythley
Posted: 11 Jul 2014, 8:19 am 

Replies: 12
Views: 1,659
Autism speaks views people as people on the spectrum as puzzle pieces to be solved and to do that they think that "behaviour treatments" at an early age get kids "off the spectrum" in early adulthood. It reminds me of attempts to "cure" gay people decades ago. Just awful.

 Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation   Topic: Autism is a "mental" disorder??

Smythley
Posted: 11 Jul 2014, 8:05 am 

Replies: 59
Views: 7,379
To call autism a mental disorder is to create the false and misguided presumption that it can be treated with drugs like a mental disorder is often treated. When you look at the meaning of disorder you get "a derangement & abnormality of thought" and the definition of derangement is insanity, a ...

 Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation   Topic: F.F.S., Fear Mongering Again

Smythley
Posted: 11 Jul 2014, 7:24 am 

Replies: 15
Views: 3,569
How depressing. They used to think poor people had a genetic predisposition to crime in the popularised eugenics movement in America, I think in the early part of the 20th century. Sad that they're trying to demonise people on the autism spectrum and somehow attempting to justify why "normalising" p...

 Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation   Topic: [ASAN]Call for Resumes: Freddie Mac Seeking Autistic Interns

Smythley
Posted: 11 Jul 2014, 6:27 am 

Replies: 9
Views: 1,536
Curious, I didn't realise they were bailed out by the Paulson run bailout plan after their hand in the Sub-prime mortgage scandal

 Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation   Topic: Are limitations forced on us by society?

Smythley
Posted: 11 Jul 2014, 6:21 am 

Replies: 53
Views: 5,865
I've been thinking about this a lot recently. A lot of people with ASD can be very focused, highly intelligent and persistent. These traits are ideal for being successful. A lot of people on this very forum seem to have a lot of drive, and may make posts about their passion and how they'd like to t...

 Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation   Topic: Neuro-anarchism, to all you anarchists on WP!

Smythley
Posted: 11 Jul 2014, 5:58 am 

Replies: 24
Views: 3,298
Authoritarianism encourages (or indeed, in extreme cases, forces) conformism. For example, conservatives, who are on the authoritarian right, often oppose LGBT rights, immigration etc. (i.e. people who are not like them) and usually are against new forms of expression and the counterculture because...

 Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation   Topic: Asperger syndrome and Libertarianism idea

Smythley
Posted: 11 Jul 2014, 5:15 am 

Replies: 216
Views: 44,458
Ever noticed how libertarians tend to be intellectually rather like latter-day scholastic philosophers, intensely, logic-choppingly, and doctrinairely rationalizing their politico-economic articles of faith the way medieval thinkers used to take their theological rationalizations to the extreme of ...
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