Aspies For Freedom

"Millions of parents"

"Parents need to be aware"

"Weapon against autism"

interesting target market here... no mention of us, just parents.

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Ever wondered where the people running charities get money? the people donating. I do not have a reference for this, but I am pretty sure the guy who founded greenpeace is a very rich man. Also, charities will distort facts for thier own purposes. Greenpeace states on thier website that 20% of the world's oxygen comes from the amazon rainforest. It's a well accepted fact that about 90% of the world's oxygen comes from algae. Do the math.

So, In a world where autistic adults usually have lower-paying jobs that NTs, and autistic children don't have much money to speak of, who's the most profitable market? parents. they're the ones with the cash. They just need to be coerced into giving it up. So, one of the most effective propaganda techniques out there is fear. make them afraid that thier child will be an emotionless robot with no chance in life, and that they will have to change thier child's daipers for 40 years until they die. In addition, one of the most effective ways to get into someone's head is via thier children. so, make them fear for thier children's safety.

It isn't autism awareness day, or an autism awareness campaign, it's a Charity awareness campaign, and a fear campaign. they don't need autistic people to be better understood in society, they want money, so they can fund and push thier "therapies" and prenatal tests, for which they will command as much money as they can get. Some of the money will make it to people who need it, but more of it's going into research. research for products they can sell. it's analogous to a young Bill Gates asking for funds to "improve software quality", then profiting from the software himself (I doubt he did, but analogies don't have to be true, they just have to give perspective)

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also, I'd say to mail the company that made the ads, and request them to make them aknowledge the greater autistic community.

Of course, batshit psuedoscience runs in the Kellogg Family.

Rock on Violet, you're really onto something.

Perhaps some kind of counter campaign, with some actual truths, would be useful to all the parents who swallow every lie the corporations feed them "good little consumer, keep buying, it'll make you happier...."

Maybe Aspies for freedom is the perfect forum for such a project.

The problem is that the NT corporations and suchlike have a lot of clout when it comes to getting messages out there, we Aspies must find the proberbial big bertha of message delivering guns if we're going to set the record straight.

If only the holier than thou charity funding types looked past their chequebooks for a minute, they might just see someone that wants and needs their help, like the people suffering all kinds of abuse
Sigh.

Conrad

Other than going all gung ho militant and buying a few hundred thousand red bandanas and ak47s, there is a much better way.

Get someone who already has that kind of clout on your side.

Bob Geldoff?
Bono?
The government?

Or of course I could do a little research and get you a really ripping deal on illegal arms (kidding, please dont shoot me MI6).

Of course a negative hatchet job on CAN is appealing, but it would make them martyrs.

The best way is to organise it like you are selling a product, in this case it is the good old peace and love. Make people want it.

Without using the demeaning sob stories "Ooh, this kid doesnt have any friends, let's cure him so he can be normal." Maybe something along the lines of einstein.

"Einstein was a genius, no doubt about it. The father of the most advanced form of science known to man.
He was also autistic.
What if he had been cured? What if he had never been born because a prenatal test indicated he wouldnt be like all the other kids?

Think about it."

Something like that.

Or possibly satirising the CAN publicity, bringing every glaring error in judgement, every insensitive comment, every hint that auts and aspies are lesser people, into the searing light of the public attention. Let them hang themselves, and then AFF steps in as the voice of auts and aspies everywhere.

Conrad

my mom only buys healthy cereal anyway
so i rarely eat keloggs now i know that when i'm with my dad i will get off brands (My mom and dad got divorced when i was 2  :cry: )

Oh no! I must admit, I really like their food. It doesn't seem they know what they're doing.