You can find lots of information on Autism Speaks under their tag (http://community.livejournal.com/asperger/tag/autism%20speaks) on asperger. Basically, they're a cure organisation - they don't want to help people with autism, they want to get rid of it, and so to raise money they try to make autism sound like the most terrifying and horrific thing ever. This article (http://www.oudaily.com/news/2009/may/05/column-autism-speaks-promotes-hysteria-ignorance/) is a good primer, while this thread (http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6100685) at Etsy (who last year used Autism Awareness month to give money to Autism Speaks) has some links to videos and so on.
I normally lock all my autism related posts, just because the internet is the one place I can pass as normal and it's nice to do so. But I just get so frustrated during April at the amount of attention (and money!) Austism Speaks and their friends are given.
Thank you for the link - another to add to my autistic blog roll!
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Date: 2010-04-08 08:09 am (UTC)I normally lock all my autism related posts, just because the internet is the one place I can pass as normal and it's nice to do so. But I just get so frustrated during April at the amount of attention (and money!) Austism Speaks and their friends are given.
Thank you for the link - another to add to my autistic blog roll!