Autism Speaks reacts to controversies

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Controversial Autism organization says they´ve changed

I am far from an expert on Autism Speaks but from what I have heard, read and learned about them I find it hard to trust them when they say they have changed. As far as I know, their "skill training" seems to have a lot in common with how you domesticate a dog or a horse without asking said animal about the motive behind it's "unwanted" behaviour.
If they have changed then prove it by kicking out all non-autistics from the Board and change the name to Autism Speaks For Itself.

It reads like someone asked ChatGPT to write the worst apology it could on behalf of Autism Speaks.

This seems like a good place to (re)post a link to The Great Big ABA Opposition Resource List.

Autism $peaks is so full of it.

If I am not mistaken, didn't they spread the whole vaccines cause autism conspiracy? Which if course is total BS but yet many people still believe it.

As far as the puzzle piece, what does changing the color do or achieve? Just dumb. Maybe it's time to 86 it already. The more I think about it, the more I don't like it. To me, it represents the whole idea of " you need to be rehabilitated" " you need to be fixed to act more normal". Same s--t I've heard all my life.

Apologies for rant.

Every time I see the puzzle piece, in any colour, I call it out. A lot of organisations don't even realise. Misinformation travels far.

Autism Speaks is so full of themselves that they make me want to puke it up blue with chunks of puzzle pieces.

I think their apology could use more ukulele.

Maybe autism speaks shouldn't be about autism anymore.


As someone outside the US; here's my perspective:

They should call themselves as 'Caretakers of Autistics Support' or something which suite them better than just go about autism and autistics itself.


They already had done enough damage as it is towards autistics (exclusion, the stigma, all that fear mongering, and the ways they encroached the topic of autism...) and about autism (the spread of misinformation, false hopes about cure, all that ableist sentiments...).


Why not just distance themselves from it a little, use all that energy and resources for good than try too hard to on something that just doesn't fit their agenda?

Their goals is to do with families of autistics after all, from the very start, that's what their supporting; not the autistics themselves.

No need to try so, so hard to 'redeem' themselves when they can just be a little more honest that they're not doing things for autistics but for the autistics' parents' and caretakers' anxieties and struggles...

Because they don't seem to listen to autistics' anxieties and struggles, and more than likely suck at trying so; why not just make them focus where they do better instead of wasting it all of the tone deaf attempts to convince autistics?

Or heck, even better -- convince professionals on how to educate parents better without that fear mongering and negativity upon the process of diagnosis while doing just that to prevent whatever stupid decisions upon any future autistics born under said hypothetical parents' care?

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