I am sewn up like a rag doll...
My insides impress me for coping this well.
cpd2009 Wrote:I also read about some short film they made that portrayed Autism in a negative light.
Autism Every Day wasn't that short. It was 45 minutes of children wailing and parents complaining. There were also shortened versions. In all versions, one woman said right in front of her autistic daughter that the only reason she didn't drive off the George Washington bridge with her was because of her daughter's non-autistic sister. They made other "documentary" films as well, of similar nature. I Am Autism portrayed autism as this scary monster voice saying, "I am autism. I know where you live, and guess what? I live there, too. I will take away your hopes and dreams and make your marriage fall apart - " yadda yadda yadda. Another film that I forget the name of had a father saying, "Autism is like if someone ripped your child's soul out and replaced him or her with someone impossible to relate to."
You get the idea. They try to make themselves sound positive to the public for money! If you dig below the surface, just a little, you'll see what they are really like.
cpd2009 Wrote:I also doubt they use the donated money just to fund their lifestyles since there is no proof that I know of that says they do. Im not saying they don't since other organizations have done just that in the past, but I'm saying it's highly doubtful.
But they do. It's in their financial reports every year. Only 4% of the money actually goes to helping anyone. Most of it goes to their car furnishings and air fare travel and such. Most of the rest goes to scientific studies to detect autism in the womb, which leads to
cpd2009 Wrote:I have one question though...how can Autism Speaks "wipe you out?".
If you think most autistic people will not be aborted when the day comes that autism can be detected in the womb, you are sadly mistaken. For every disability and abnormality that can be detected in the womb, the abortion rates are frighteningly high and parents who will not abort usually give their children up to their government. That is how I have two of my children, one who was given up for an abnormality shared with me (an extra female chromosome that in essence makes females taller and increases likelihood of disabilities) that isn't even a disability by itself.
Disability advocates who have disabilities that can be detected in the womb say they feel like endangered species. It is predicted that autism will be detected prenatally within a year to three now, at the most, and I do worry for possibly inevitable drama surrounding my future
niblings. I know they would not be aborted, but do I think my sister-in-law will be pressured to give them up? Absolutely. She would not give in, but she would be called willingly irresponsible, just like the "normal" parents of so many of my friends who brought them into the world knowing they were different. As for a number of my grandchildren and great-niblings, ugh, endangered species indeed by those years.
cpd2009 Wrote:At one time, I did like the idea on how Autism can be cured, and how Autism itself was being mentioned more and more in the media than in years past largely in part because of Autism Speaks, but that is all I thought about the organization. I never really researched the organization, and maybe I should do so.
Oh for the days of obscurity. The media has a long way to go to getting us right. It gets us
best when it doesn't say autism by name, because then autistic characters can actually act like people instead of walking symptoms with no personalities beyond "rude for no reason"! Documentaries are the worst. They tend to be either "look at what a burden this person is" or "TWO AUTISTIC PEOPLE FELL IN LOVE! LOOK, EVEN SOULLESS MEANIES CAN FIND LOVE WITH EACH OTHER!" If half of the couple isn't autistic in the report, she is always the female half who is portrayed as a saint for dealing with her husband. I am super erased. [strike]Plus I was a saint first
and autistic, har har har. Where are my extra points? Ah yeah, either denied or turned down. =p[/strike]
Anyway, this is how you cure autism:
1. Remove autistic person's brain.
2. Congratulations. The person is cured. No longer living, but cured.
Sorry for this gloomy, gloomy response. This is in essence the most serious issue of my life at the moment.
Why would you want to be cured, though? This isn't like being in a wheelchair. Too many faucets of our life are colored by it. If you cut out long hair for tangles that could be combed, you end up bald, so to speak. Assume for the sake of the metaphor that the tangles in question start at the scalp.
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I don't think I ever did though since I have Autism myself, but it's hard to remember simply watching a TV show. Whenever I see some form of animated media treat us as being stupid or "special", or commenters on YouTube or some other website be insensitive to Autistic people, I get a little upset inside.