2017 Update: If you notice the language I used in 2016, maybe similar to mid 2017 where I attacked the anti-vaxxers’ anger towards this said group. While I used language as they were making autism a hip thing; the other misperception of any high functioning autistic is they are hip, cool, progressive and live in ritzy areas. That’s not a fair accusation from many of the anti autism groups. I don’t know if I quoted anti vaxxers or the anti vaxxers quoted me, but since then their social media presense talks about all other disabilities, employment and race. Where’s the autism?
They aren’t speaking for me…
Happy New Year, hoping people enjoyed the holiday weekend (if that holiday still exists.)
I don’t like special interest groups. I don’t care if its right wing, left wing, middle wing, whatever. There are two types of special interest groups, one is radical and the other one is for true minorities. Sadly there is so many of the former that exists that are often compared to as “racial arsonists” like a Jessie Jackson, or an Al Sharpton. Sure there is racism, but overall I’d say 98% of America is not as “racist” as those two men want to dismiss the stereotypical old white men agenda.
You’ll never have 100% tolerance in any walk of life.
Including autism.
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network is one of many of the radical special interest groups for special needs. They will call out on Autism Speaks and attack them at every opportunity possible for the same rhetoric of “Autism Speaks doesn’t allow anyone with autism to speak at all” B.S. This rhetoric gets old, but you know these people know everything so we cannot question or even worse – challenge these people. If you do, you’ll likely be labeled as an “ableist.”
Autism is hip and cool as the cover shows on the 2015 Annual Report to the Autistic Self Advocacy Network. Like autistics, they can’t hide things well such as far left liberal causes that apparently every “Autistic American” is far to the left of the political spectrum.
This time it was probably “different” as ASAN called out Autism Speaks publicly in yet another generic cut-and-paste of a .dot template, almost. Why are they vague? ASAN never goes into very deep specifics like your humble publisher, since that’s not OK to be specific since that causes “microagressions” to these thin skinned high functioning types. By omitting their relationship with the mass media, the Catholic church, and Big Corporations, their narrative is actually not as progressive as yours truly tries to take the attack on a more sophisticated level and attack it like it was a cancer. Also I don’t know where they allege Autism Speaks making “autism as a tragic burden.” I don’t think AS at all has even flat-out stated autism is a “burden.” Again if you have a lower functioning autistic that was unable to get assistance, then it would be at least at a minimum a financial “burden”
A page from their annual report that the caption goes far from too much information. Even a blind person doesn’t need that much waste of ink for words.
They also don’t believe autism should be cured at all. You are required to “accept” them no matter what. Try telling that to Americans who have kids who run away or self harm (I don’t know if this is the majority, but I mean can they be part of the narrative?)
What if someone had Alhimzer’s or cancer, are we supposed to “accept” those diseases in the “no different, no less” fashion?
And “guardianship” is also not in fashion and its now not P.C. The thought police will arrest people who want guardianship of their child. They also seem to have an anti parent agenda. My mother would really love that. It’s interesting to see how much they hate parents, they hate guardianship because if I was a parent of these little brats, I’d punish them as adults. The way they give the finger (almost literally) to what was taught to them in schools only because they think they are above the social rules shows how much low class these ultra rich punks should just be looked down upon. Hey Breaking News: You’re not special and stop acting that you are above the social rules. You guys are over educated, and too rich, enough already!
an image of mostly rich Caucasians, no Latinos or African Americans to be seen in this page about “Leadership academies”
Change has never worked in the way of chants, and demonstrations. In some locales, people will distance even further from them than get closer. What’s worse is many of these events often don’t have a strong narrative to begin with. I mean you have to speak the same message, the same pitch and the same tone or else be called “ableist”
If this example shows proof:
Nothing about us without us.
Nothing about us without us.
Nothing about us without us.
I’m not saying that they don’t have a right to say things; it’s how their credibility from the view of parents of severely autistic children can look down. And I am not saying that’s right ether – it’s just the reality.
ASAN’s other special interests on the non traditional relationships, and other disabilities often are a distraction to their main issue. I guess it’s inclusive, but this “Autism Crisis” is so serious, that they aren’t taking their own cause so seriously. I honestly could care less about feminism and feminists destroying men if only it is 100% directly on topic with ASD. Not only that they make up words like “microagressions”, “#InspirationalPorn” because saying things like “My prayers are with you” or “you’ll get there” and “stay strong” is “ableist”, its apparently “judgmental” even though it’s just a nice gesture. These people are actually not remotely close to be peace loving types of people. They hate anything they can’t agree with. I thought differences made the world go around like “nerodiversity”?
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ASAN has a lot of publicists without lots of facts to spread and push out to the rest of the world. They’re out of Washington DC, where it’s mostly rich Caucasians, evading taxes, or come from trust funded families or live off the Social Security system – in such position have no idea what its like to live outside the East Coast.
ASAN basically lectures to the Arizona state officials without any source to back it up. Did someone tip them from the state? Who knows. (If you ever heard the voice of Ari Neehan, you can hear his snooty tone, which he turns me off in respecting this organization.) In the most recent letter to Arizona officials alleging a facility isn’t a “community based support” per to the Medicaid law, they basically are making a complaint from 2,500 miles away without any source from “the field” so to speak and the letter seems to be very leglease. Isn’t ASAN’s chapters the more appropriate venue to call out, an agency closer to home?
If this was a right wing outlet, I’d be just as p!ssed, special interests groups really have no reason to tread on states where they don’t agree with their policy.
The real problem is Medicaid, not some red state. (It’s very apparent that ASAN slants way to the left of center, which is just wrong on so many levels.) You cannot tell society if they can accept people or not. That’s life! In my state, south and east of Interstate 89 and 393 has very low tolerance or low progress for people with developmental disabilities and overall sustains life in a “good” way not too much not too low. It’s their own people that’s the problem. So what if you’re like me who is trying to break the barrier but can’t. Do I have a right to not be in “community based supports”? If the individual or family believes that’s the best fit for them, it should be their rights.
Is the problem really about the Medicaid delivery system or some backwards thinking state in the minds of very political people in one of the largest populations on the East Coast? ASAN never questions the Federal government, unless it’s against their very flat, same, boring narrative.
The problem is whether you are really a dummy from the boonies or some highly educated person that lives in Middlesex County, Massachusetts – the similarities are – you won’t tolerate people like me; you will hold progress; regulation line by line will fix the problems, or you don’t want to “fund those people” or believe in very restrictive environments.
It is very interesting how an organization run by a former TV exec and another organization allegedly run by eloquent autistics can’t seem to deliver a message without static. And because of that, this is why the autism movement has really sputtered and won’t move full force ahead until both organizations can stop being so damn divisive and act like grownups and learn to compromise. In America, 4 organizations fighting for the narrative is too much. There needs to be M&A or dissolve.
The Autism Society of America seems to be the quiet underdog. Maybe someone can learn from this organization.