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HoxtonPaul
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25 Sep 2009, 2:57 am

As each of these 'events' happens, we as a community defines itself by it's responses and actions.

Make a response video ridiculing it like I did.

Come on Ladies - I AM TAMPONS...

A few of them now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU2paLv1MGE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoOHYB1_BSM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJr6o6TgJhk

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25 Sep 2009, 11:17 am

Hmm, this is the organisation that pays some of its top people $500,000 or thereabouts and spends incredible sums on PR and marketing. And now they are saying that we destroy people's lives....what a way to frighten people into giving money to them, eh?

Who would want to be in a relationship with someone autistic after that, or hire them, or give them a chance at school, or be their friend? They are destroying our lives and our chances, I believe, by portraying us like this.

Even the most profoundly autistic and non-verbal of us is a person, worthy of love, of respect, of a future.

Hooray for those that speak back to them to give a sense of balance.

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25 Sep 2009, 11:55 am

That video made me angry and sad.

It hits me that, once again, it's only described what the family to an autistic kid experiences of pain, embarrassment and whatnot - and not a single word about what the autistic person experiences! It's the parents who have the suffering, as we all know...... :roll: :roll: Well, why don't they diagnose them too as "autism co-sufferers"? Well, no, they aren't co-sufferers, but the only sufferers...

What about a video like this?
"I am Neurotypicalism.
I stand behind every corner to bully you, if you are autistic.
I know where you live. And I live there too in your relatives who misunderstand you.
I make you cry every day in school.
I submit you to rules you don't understand - even though you really ought to.
I give you overloads with my weapon of mass-socialization...."
... and so on.

And no. It's not to claim that "NTs are like that". But it's in the same style as Autism Speaks themselves.
I'm glad that we don't have anything of that kind in Denmark.

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25 Sep 2009, 1:01 pm

This is persecution of an innocent people, pure and simple. It's generalizing and lying based on some anecdotes. One can demonize anything with those words.

“I am the Repubican Party. I have no interest in right or wrong. I will plot to rob you of your children and your dreams….And if you’re happily married, I will make sure that your marriage fails. Your money will fall into my hands, and I will bankrupt you for my own self-gain,”

Or
“I am gayness. I have no interest in right or wrong. I will plot to rob you of your children and your dreams….And if you’re happily married, I will make sure that your marriage fails. Your money will fall into my hands, and I will bankrupt you for my own self-gain,”

Or
“I am a new baby. I have no interest in right or wrong. I will plot to rob you of your children and your dreams….And if you’re happily married, I will make sure that your marriage fails. Your money will fall into my hands, and I will bankrupt you for my own self-gain,”

Or
“I am a need for companionship. I have no interest in right or wrong. I will plot to rob you of your children and your dreams….And if you’re happily married, I will make sure that your marriage fails. Your money will fall into my hands, and I will bankrupt you for my own self-gain,”

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25 Sep 2009, 1:12 pm

OregonBecky wrote:

Or
“I am Autism Speaks. I have no interest in right or wrong. I will plot to rob you of your children and your dreams….And if you’re happily married, I will make sure that your marriage fails. Your money will fall into my hands, and I will bankrupt you for my own self-gain,”

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25 Sep 2009, 1:17 pm

southwestforests wrote:

OregonBecky wrote:

Right on!

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25 Sep 2009, 10:55 pm

Vector wrote:

My music video response to "I Am Autism:"

I'm Autistic

I saw your video today. It made me flap.
I just cannot rant enough about why I hate Autism Speaks and also UNICEF and the MDA for that matter...

What is UP with them?

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25 Sep 2009, 11:22 pm

As far as I'm concerned Autism Speaks can go suck lemons. I haven't seen the video and frankly I don't want to. There are no groups like it in NZ but people do not believe I have a disability because I'm good at schoolwork. People have to learn to learn about the truth about things like autism instead of being blinded by curebie propaganda.

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26 Sep 2009, 1:27 am

Meh. The video isn't as bad as people are making it out to be.

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26 Sep 2009, 4:21 am

buryuntime wrote:

Meh. The video isn't as bad as people are making it out to be.

Umm, yes, it is that bad.
Have I quoted Malcolm-X lately? http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt77445.html
If you hear enough hate speech, especially from an early age, you can’t help but internalize some of it. “Autism Speaks” is a hate group, and their message is clear.

My parody/response to the recent video attack from “Autism Speaks”

I am melanin (skin pigment). I am caused by a tragic genetic defect that pervades all areas of a person’s life. I am not tolerable in certain cultures. My existence inspires hatred, oppression, violence and murder, and a climate which leads to self-doubt, depression, anxiety, anger, lowered IQ, underachievement and institutionalization.

I am double X-chromosome (female). I am caused by a tragic genetic defect that pervades all areas of a person’s life. I am not tolerable in certain families and cultures. My existence inspires oppression, abuse, mind control, violence, mutilation and infanticide, and a climate which leads to self-doubt, depression, anxiety, and underachievement.

I am Rh-negative (blood type). Rh disease is caused by an incompatibility between a mother and her baby. Once a woman becomes sensitized, my existence will cause a mother’s Rh antibodies to cross the placenta and attack her fetus.

I am autism. I am caused by a tragic genetic defect that pervades all areas of a person’s life. My neurological differences and learning styles, if allowed to develop in their own ways, would blossom into a basic honesty and a need to see the world in rational terms; traits which are not tolerable in certain families and cultures. If untreated, such families and cultures will attack their own people, believing that anyone who can not be assimilated must be destroyed. My existence inspires hatred, emotional abuse, oppression, mind control, forced substance abuse, violence, murder and infanticide, and creates a toxic culture which leads to self-doubt, depression, anxiety, lowered IQ, underachievement, brain damage and institutionalization.

Such families and cultures will attempt to stunt the growth of their children’s areas of strength (out-of-the-box thinking) in the magical hope that this will facilitate development in the areas of their perceived deficits (lack of herd-instinct) thus making them unfit for any role outside of an institution.

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26 Sep 2009, 12:38 pm

Apple_in_my_Eye wrote:

Is there a Youtube version of Ne'eman's response? I can't get the video on that page to work.

There is. Here's the link: No Myths

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26 Sep 2009, 3:33 pm

Sarafina7 wrote:

Apple_in_my_Eye wrote:

Is there a Youtube version of Ne'eman's response? I can't get the video on that page to work.

There is. Here's the link: No Myths

Thank you!

Excellent response by Ne'eman. There's a few ugly, but revealing comments on the YT page -- someone saying that his not being self-supporting invalidates his message that autistic people can have lives worth living. 'No job' == 'worse than pediatric AIDS/a life not worth living,' apparently. (I'd hate to be that guy's grandma.)

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27 Sep 2009, 8:22 am

Apple_in_my_Eye wrote:

Thank you!

Excellent response by Ne'eman.

You're welcome. "No Myths" was made before "I am Autism", so it's not a response to that particular video. It's a response to the general attitude towards autism and autism myths.

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27 Sep 2009, 11:39 am

Autism Speaks had a walk for money in Portland yesterday and the news covered the people protesting Autism Speaks. Yay!

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27 Sep 2009, 11:41 am

OregonBecky wrote:

Autism Speaks had a walk for money in Portland yesterday and the news covered the people protesting Autism Speaks. Yay!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74I5IdzzAPA[/youtube]

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27 Sep 2009, 12:02 pm

It's hard for some of us socially awkward people to get out among the masses and speak out for our cause but I was happily surprised at the number of Portlanders who came up to us in support and said they were tired of the mania about autism and the over-the-top claims. Autism Speaks' nasty, exaggerated messages might be backfiring on them.

There will always be the martyred cure cult who wants to wallow in their messages of doom but the public might be becoming sick of it.

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