I saw a television commercial. It started off showing photos of children (cauasian children) and saying that 1 in 500 children are kidnapped every year. This was a national tragedy. I was thinking that parents must be having some custody battles or that some perverts were kidnapping and murdering children. I expected them to start showing some police posters. Then it came up Autism Canada.
I was very insulted. I do not feel that autism has kidnapped me. There was no mention of autistic adults. Maybe I should write a letter about how insulting this commercial was to me. Who should I write to?
M, I'm not sure but hope one of the other readers can help. It also concerns me because it seems to trivialise the anguish that families go through when a child is abducted and never found again or turns up murdered.
WTF... Kidnapped by autism? That's one of the dumbest and most insulting things I've heard from a TV (insulting to people on the autistic spectrum and people who've actually had their children kidnapped and murdered, as Pakrat said). I sure as hell don't feel kidnapped by my AS.
Was it just one in 500 though? In the US there are TV commercials pounding it into our heads that one in 166 children can be classified as autistic.
I looked at their website. It is a "parents group" and all the directors are parents of children with autism. So really, they do not care about adults with autism. They just care about "cure." However, the website lists their names, occupations and where they work. For sure, I will boycott all their businesses. No use writing to complain to them about their commercial. I might write to the broadcasting station though. -If that would do any good.
WHAT!?!? This needs to stop now!!! Aspergianism surely did not "kidnap" me! AT ALL!
Seriously!!! kkjkkjkkjkkjkkkkkkkkkkjkkkkkkkjkkjkkjkkkkjkkjkkjjk (Stimming to metal and being pissed off)
Yeah that is insulting. Aspieness doesn't kidnapp children
CAN has used this before in some of their ads equating autism as a evil monster that "steals" children and leaves them with a broken child or otherwise isn't their child. they preceive autism as something that robs children of a life. autism doesn't rob children of life, more often it's sterotypes that rob them, saying they are useless, etc.
and yes that is insulting. very tasteless and classless. i notice that there is a lack of emphtay in the curebie camp (the thing we don't have ironcally enough).
It is one of those ads that specialise in misinformation and unjustifiable hyperbole.