...for my Autism Speaks facts list.
I posted my against-Autism-Speaks list on FB. The list can also be found here: https://anastassiacharitymarie.wordpress...abolished/
I got a PM from a character named Chantale Meadows Belanger on FB that went like this:
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you realize that parenting also requires you to have consequences and if your the kind of parent that feels it is not okay to discipline your child just because he/she has Autism then I feel very sorry for your child. Have you ever ad any kind of ABA from Crom?
and ALSO you realize that you CANNOT have blood tests done to rule out Autism. Autism is NOT found in their blood nor in their genes . You my dear should not believe everything that you read on the internet
here get educated before passing false s**t aaround the internet. I have dealt with Crom for the past 12 years and believe you me I can and no for a fact that you are spreading lies. You realize what you are doing is illegal right? defamation of character is a big deal in a court of law regardless if it's towards a person or a company .. I saved everything and print screened everything you have shared about this stuff in your own facebook and all over the net. Get educated!
http://crom-wmrc.ca/en/who-we-are/To which I replied:
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Hey, are you the same Chantale Meadows that PMed me? Lemme debunk some stuff. 1) I never said anything false about CROM. 2) I should have made it clearer that Autism Speaks is RESEARCHING TO FIND a prenatal test. I apologize. 3) I meant that PUNISHING FOR STIMMING AND THE LIKE is not acceptable.
In case my blog gets shut down, let me post my list in here too:
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Why Autism Speaks must be abolished
OCTOBER 26, 2014 ~ ANASTASSIA CHARITY MARIE FLORINE
No reasonable person would dare suggest that an organization comprised entirely of men represents women’s interests or that an organization led entirely by white people represents the interests of people of color, yet the same standard evidently does not apply to disability organizations despite the existence of many cross-disability and autism-specific organizations led by actually disabled people. ~ Lydia Brown, Autistic Hoya
1. They support eugenics. Alongside salaries, most of their donations go to research to create a genetic test for autism so that parents can abort their children or fetuses when they test positive for autism in the womb. Yes, the test can be useful to plan for a child’s life, but let’s admit that with society’s attitude right now, most women would abort an autistic fetus. They just want to wipe us from the gene pool. One woman who worked for CRDI (formerly the West Montreal Readaptation Centre/ Centre Readaptation de l’Ouest de Montreal) told me she wouldn’t abort a kid because he didn’t have the right color eyes, but that it’s a woman’s right to abort an autistic fetus because it is autistic. When I told them I considered boycotting the facility, they told me I needed to work on agreeing to disagree. However, I say that agreeing to disagree does not mean letting the opposition walk all over you and giving in to them.
2. They are against autism… something that we ARE.
3. They are in it for the money.
4. They don’t have any autistic on their staff. The one they did have on their staff, John Elder Robison, resigned in disgust when he realized what he was supporting. He was a pawn anyway. He was a well-known author who was for neurodiversity when they weren’t.
5. They spend most of their money on themselves. Most of their money goes to salaries.
6. They silence autistics. They threatened to sue a 14-year-old autistic girl once for making a parody of the site. Parodies are perfectly moral and, under the Fair Use Act, perfectly legal. Then they threatened to sue an autistic named Zachary Lassiter for selling t-shirts that said “Autism Speaks does not speak for me. I am autistic. I can speak for myself.”
7. They don’t pay autistics for writing about their own experiences, but they pay thousands to so-called parents to complain on the Autism Speaks website about how their children are such a burden and a waste of space.
8. They support the murder of autistics, including the children. Allison Tepper Singer, a mother of a little girl named Jodie, said in the video Autism Every Day that she had fantasies of putting Jodie in the car and driving off the George Washington Bridge, and that the only thing stopping her from doing that was her other daughter… the typical one.
9. They have double standards. They say we should be positive about Autism Speaks and not bash it because that’s negative. Well, we’re bashing them because they’re not being positive about us. Autism Speaks, how about YOU say something positive! This also goes for the agreeing to disagree thing I mention in the first point in this list.
10. They tell people to donate first and read their pamphlet later.
Oh, and she/he/they also posted on my blog, saying that Autism Speaks is good and that it is especially good because "autism parents" support it. I replied with "Autism Speaks thinks our thoughts, feelings, ideas and opinions are invalid because they're the product of some disease."
04 Apr 2015, 1:29 am
