If you haven’t looked into this you really should. Autism Speaks is very much a harm in the world.
Very helpful article. I recommend reading it. Here is the TLDR premise.
Rather than focusing on raising awareness and advocating for the acceptance of autism in society, Autism Speaks treats it like a disease that needs to be cured or eradicated. Such a mindset increases the stigma and discrimination against people with autism as it presents the idea that there is something inherently wrong with them that needs to be fixed.
Autism Speaks seems like an awful organization that masquerades as something that it is not. It seems to essentially be an autism eradication proponent, similar to those who want to eradicate homosexuality. Both, clearly, impossibilities. Or, even if they were possible, amoral at best, immoral more likely.
Why they trying to eradicate the superior human form? smh. I’m only mostly joking.
I actually was thinking about that the other day. They have done studies and it turns out that Autistic people communicate well with Autistic people. It is entirely possible to have a entire civilization based around autism.
There was a volunteer at an old job I had, autistic and older generation, so he had lived in his mums care all his life. My colleagues couldnt wait to get away from him, but he really made the job way more enjoyable for me
