uhh well.. a horific video by Autism speaks

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i dont know if this had been done before but here goes

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

I'm neutral toward the video. The commentors below piss me off though. They must think they are so smart useing personal attacks. Typical..

It reminds me of the Rolling Stones song "Sympathy for the Devil".....

I think it might sound so appalling from our POV because we don't think of autism like a THING like a cancer tumor, so it's kind of hard to listen to the commercial and think of the narrator as AUTISM by itself. Instead I kept thinking of him as AUTISTIC, so it sounded really evil and terrible. XD;;
But yeah, it's kind of a terrible commercial because it makes it sound like these normal kids are being held captive by something. And I guess it can feel like that sometimes but it's definitely not usually like that.

Bloody hell. I can see what they're trying to do; it's like those ads that show cancer as being a seperate entity that you must fight, but autism isn't treatable, it isn't lethal and unlike cancer, you can't differentiate it from the person themselves.

This scare-mongering is horrible. What must parents with autistic kids think when they see it? It's telling them that 'autism' isn going to destroy their family, marriage, embaress them.... great. Just the support they need.

I hate this video, I couldn't watch it to the end. I hate the negitive comments too, especially the one which said that Autistic people can't write. I feel like making an account just to tell them how wrong they are but I'd probably just get idiots insulting me. Urrrr, my blood boils now.

Autism Speaks does not speak for me. I speak for myself.

I read some more comments. I didn't know messages could be marked as spam. I feel a tiny tiny bit less mad. I still hate Autism Speaks though.

It has been done:

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt111358.html

Still, we dare not forget the menace Autism Speaks and
its sister organizations pose to persons with autism spectrum
disorder; I can't object too strenuously to your thread.

Sorry, I accidentally poster that answer twice.

by the way im valoszygo on there and the read and write coment was directed at me.. foresam seems an ass frankly

edit: i did a quick search, but i was so anoyed i just wanted poeple here to see this.

hmm. Well that's an insulting video isn't it. I really don't know what to say other then it offends me.

Well, Autism Speaks is kinda shaky imo, just from the sound of them and the tone they seem to carry. I think someone mentioned this link in another topic (forgot which). I know that one of the Wrong Planeteers here attended an Autism Speaks speech at some college, and this person stood up and started knocking Autism Speaks down a few notches (because he/she was in the spectrum). If anything, with all they have said and done, do they have any concrete research into Autism itself to be considered a rallying group?

Dear God. This is disgusting. How pathetic does this organization think we are?

Wow. Offensive much?

Wow, that is so awful! What a crock of shi*... This seems like a scare tactics video to win over the uninformed and perhaps gain donations. Who are the ass*oles who let that video even be put up? Bah, it's no wonder this organization lacks sense. They let Sarah Palin speak for them... and now this.