Town & Country Profiles Wrights, Other Autism Leaders
Autism Speaks co-founders Bob and Suzanne Wright are profiled in an article in the August issue of Town & Country magazine entitled "Autism's Angels." In the article, the Wrights discuss their reasons for founding Autism Speaks and the organization's mission. The article looks at the work of a number of prominent autism advocates, including Autism Speaks board member Laura Slatkin and her husband Harry Slatkin. Read more.
http://www. autismspeaks.org/inthenews/town_and_country.php
autism speaks is not autism advocacy. they hate us. more like eugenic advocates.
if they say autism is hell, they are not autism advocates. :evil:
Kristina Chew blogged about this:
http://www.autismvox.com/autisms-angels-...rk-thought
The Town & Country article is another disgusting story about parents who say they sometimes think their autistic child would be better off dead so that he wouldn't have to suffer, and who claim that all parents of autistic children have similar thoughts. Not surprisingly, these parents are board members of Autism Speaks.
Are all the directors and officers of Autism Speaks obsessed with thoughts of child murder? This is one of the sickest cults I have ever seen.
i think autism speaks is a cult of child murderers. my parents defintley did not habor thoughts of murdering me, becuase they knew murdering anyone was wrong. i think autism speaks is really autiephobic, hate all autistics, and would rather see them gone. if they had it their way, they would legalize child murder for autistics.
they put words in other people's mouthes claming everyone wants to murder their child and feels the same way. i think they are trapped in their own little world.
Those Autism Speaks people really are sick. The only thing those children are suffering from, is their parents ignorance and assumption they'd be better off dead. Autism Speaks might just be helping push parents like that closer to that conclusion. ~:-(
I think a lovely, succient, letter to the editor of that magazine is in order. I assume magazine prints such letters, since pretty much all magazines do.
Something like,
Thank you for profiling autism, but I have to take issue with your calling xxx and xxx autism's angels. Perhaps they are the angels of frustrated parents who are not capable of seeing the true gift of their special child, but they are not the angels of the children. I have austism and when I read their words and mission I see a complete missunderstanding of who I am, and I chill at the words of parents who suggest their child lives in misery. I am not like my parents, and I know they would agree it was a challenge to raise me, but I am quite happy with who I am. My life is worth living just the way it is. To have others on a mission to educate the public otherwise terrifies me.
Thank you, DW_a_mom, it makes a very strong point.
One thing about that letter suggestion ...
I can't send it. I'm not autistic - and I really think it makes a stronger point coming from someone who is. Basically I wrote up what I've been hearing all you say.
Feel free to copy, borrow, alter, use, not use ... as you all see fit!