a new idea about our battle with autism $peaks

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Reading that just ruined my day (fortunately there are only 15 minutes left in the day)

the hate and misinformation autism speaks and ALUT is spreading ruining every day in my life and they hate toward autistic people needs to end , they are either a frauds who ruining our name for money or a hate groups who want to eliminate us, either way it has to end quick , destroy autism $peaks ! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !

there likely just misguided or ignorant

Wikipedia has a listing for 'Autism Speaks' - Listing includes controversies surrounding 'Autism Speaks.'

By "controversy" they mean "actual autistic people are sick of their crap".

I can't wait until we finally manage to make ASAN or something similar the go-to autism foundation instead of A$.

[quote="themanfromuranus"] thats disturbing, that such hate groups can even speak in the UN. it is as if the KKK was in the un disscussing about black people rights in africa. i is just disgusting that corporations like autism $peaks have a say in the UN.[/quote]

That reminds me, while I was in Africa, there was this guy who worked for the African Union who was a member of the KKK. Someone in my middle school class, whose father was a member of the AU, went on a large rant about it between classes.

But on the question of how to deal with these hate groups.
First, respond promptly to each piece of propaganda they shovel out. Give it a low rating, review it, and spread word to other neurodiverse people to help out with that. The lower the initial rating, the less initial impact and that should curb viewership significantly over the course of the propaganda piece's lifetime.
Second, actively protest, i.e. start petitions and sign them left and right.
Thirdly, and most importantly, directly impact NT culture.

Actually, if I read this correctly, advancements in the search for a cure are showing that ASD's may be curable through the use of drugs which are currently being tested on mice exhibiting autism-like symptoms;

iflscience.com/brain/children-autism-have-extra-synapses-their-brains

Have you ever read "A Clockwork Orange" which was about the ethical dilemma about whether or not curing a psychopath would be right or wrong. I think many of those dilemma's exist, and even moreso, in the case of ASD.

It's hilarious they think that. You've heard, I'm sure, that depression is caused by an unbalance in neurotransmitters. However, research shows that the chemical unbalance only exists in less than 25% of patients and that the drugs are only effective in less than 10% of patients. Despite that, doctors pass them out like candy without doing the chemical tests required to see if the unbalance exist. If they don't have the unbalance in the first place, the drugs will do nothing more than likely cause an unbalance and the patient is subject to the chance of the many side affects. It is a nice way to make profit.

Sure, maybe if they can get the drug through human drug trials without causing large amounts of brain damage, then it could hit the market, but it would still only cure a small minority of ASDs. The shock of the change could also cause massive psychological damage for many of those it works on. Can the mind handle being changed so radically after it has adapted to itself?
On top of that, it would likely cause the ASDs to be forced to live with the drug for the rest of their life.

Actually if you search "autism speaks controversy" into google, you'll get 10 pages worth of websites Although I here this place is actually affiliated and/or partnered with autism speaks, whats the story on that?