Aspies For Freedom

Since there is a lot of opposing opinions on Autism Speaks/Cure Autism Now, what are your opinions of Autism Society of America. I am referring to the national chapter, not the state/local ones.

Curebies. I don't think so. If there was a "cure" I'd lose my main advantages.

I wonder how affiliated ASA is with what Bernard Rimland stood for - he established ASA and Autism Research Institute (where DAN! came from).

Bernard Rimland is one of the founders of ASA and is currently an honorary board memeber. I have noticed lately there have been some DAN! ads on the newsletter.

He's no longer a board member, from wikipedia:

Wikipedia puts it as a pro-cure group. In my personal opinion, it is hard to tell which way they are leaning.

I didn't realized that he was dead.

I said that it is hard to tell because the site don't say outright if they are pro-acceptance or pro-cure group, but if one looks at the site really carefully, it sounds like as if it is a pro-cure group.

Temple Grandin was on their board, and she's pro-acceptance for the most part.  Overall, I think there a bad group.

Any examples of making them a bad group?

Heard that the local groups, I guess mostly of parents, have been rather pro-cure.

I don't like it. They're seemingly pro-cure.

I've not really heard of or researched there stance.

I looked at their website more.  They aren't as bad as Autism Speaks, they even have a link to an pro-acceptance article.  However they do have puzzle piece ribbons on their website.

They even have a page on human rights and autism:
http://w ww.autism-society.org/site/Page...dvo_rights

Which just leaves me confused about them...

The pages on thier site suggest they lean towards biomed research (vaccines and toxins) rather than genetic research.

I'm not sure but I think they also spurred the autistics.org slogan: The real voice of autism (whereas the ASA's slogan is: The voice of autism)