Aspies For Freedom

Have you actually watched it?

It's on the Autism Speaks website itself. I've skimmed through it but it's kinda long. Also notably poorly edited. They look like they're speaking on fast forward at times...

Hmm, anyone got a video camera? :smile:

My connection is bad enough I can't really watch very much of it, but the beginning comments from the adults, were really all about the life of the disgruntled parents, not the life of the autistic child.  They just showed some temper tantrum moments as if they were typical, not showing any happy moments.  I mean, what would be wrong with showing what it looks like when a child is happy.  If I had a constant vedio camera going of any one person during their childhood years, I could probably make anybody look like a demonaic psychopath.  If parents have fallen into the pits of despair over their child thats one thing.  Trying to present us or the classic autism children as in undying torment really is just a reflection of the minds of the parents who haven't figured out how to love and appreciate the way their kids are.

no, but the way they protray autistics in the video, they might as well.  they interpet that without actually saying that.

i'm not watching the video...more prodganda to get rid of all of us becuase of a few whiny parents...

Maybe some sort of sedative?

Something really needs to be done about this. Short of a DOS on their server, maybe a googlebomb so that if people searched for "autism every day" it would first come up with a page explaining how the video is blatant propoganda.

that's probaly why my parents hardly mentoned autism with me, becuase they knew of the negative rhetoric it got.  and btw, i did have a few hissy fits, but who doesn't?  i didn't do it to make my parents life a nightmare, and i dobut most of these kids want to do that to their parents.  although there are some non autistics that want to do that to their parents, especally when they hit their teen years and into adulthood.  why don't we prevent them, since they cause their parents so much heartache?  oh wait, normal teenagers are supposed to be bad, while i see parents of autistic teenagers more calm since they don't do that bad stuff.

so is steriod usage, but it's not toted as an epidemic.  autism as itself does not ruin familes, debt, etc.  it's the precetion of autism and the autistic in the family that can ruin marriges, etc.  if they precive it as bad, of course they are going to break down.  and sometimes, the autistic just amplifes other family issues...our family is happy.

i'm not doomed to a lonely, spouseless and childless life.  autism does not impair anyone to be doomed...but some bias of autistics are saying they are doomed to instituion.  this is false.  we can do whatever we want.  and not having a family is not worse...it depends on everyone's goals in life...but some people imply that everyone should have the same standrad to be happy, which is unfair.  some people are happy with familes, some don't really care for getting married.

i hope that a cure for autism is not found and that in the future, we are understood to be an equal part of socitey, like my friends have.  my hope is that we cure bigorty, so everyone can apprecate everyone's abilties and disablites.  divided we are small, but toghether, we are better....that was lame.

looks like they have bigger plans with that video.

looks like it's being used as more prodaganda to try to get everyone against us.

and btw, i belive that autism speaks is a kkk type group, becuase they want to kick us off the curb forever....what a shame.  but don't take my word for it.

Yeah, encouraging murder is such a wonderful influence on people's behavior    :roll:

that's a good point.  mabye these parents think we can't learn how to use the potty, and buy us diapers becuase they think we can't be toilet trained.

i think also, it could be that we tend to wet the bed until we're 9 or 10.  i know i did.  had an extremely embarssing bed wetting incident in college, good thing i had no roommate and nobody found out about it.  i was super embarrsed for a few years.

i think some kids wear goodnites, which are toilet training tools, not sure how long they use them for though.  but after 2, you should start to learn to use the toliet.

bonnie mentioned that "Some autistic activists in the United States were so upset by the abusive treatment of the children in that video, they contacted Child Protective Services and asked for an investigation."

thoughts on that?  all i can say is it's about time.

oh yes, my friends can all say that they have experinced being with an autistic, but have they lived it?  no.  she hasn't lived the autistic life.  she was only a observer.  i wouldn't want to speak for baseball players, becuase i never was one.  i can speak for autism becuase i'm autistic.  she can't, she can't truly speak for what we really need.

you want to know why he was unhappy...she probaly caused his unhappiness by abuse and not accepting him as he was.  she probaly never showed him happiness, but instead sadness and pain all the time, and that's all he knew.

and to say that you had to get him away from you is just cruel...you just wanted him out of your life becuase he was inconvient to your life.

are these the people that are supposed to advocate for us?  people who say that we are unfit to live? :evil:

http://conuly.livejournal.com/1084813.html

commentary of someone who watched the video.  i think this really puts where autism speaks thinks about us in presepective.

:lol:

This article really should be publiscized more.