04-03-2007, 01:25 AM
these guys are very annoying and very disturbing in the way they try to hijack autistics lives. i'm starting to think soon, they will copyright everything done by autistics and claim that our lives belong to them and warp them to what they want.
http://www.autismvox.com/the-wrights-speak/
some excerts:
http://www.autismvox.com/the-wrights-speak/
some excerts:
Quote:
* Mr. Wright notes the main goal of Autism Speaks: It is “trying to make life better for people with autism, but really trying to get to the cause and cure.”
* Mrs. Wright notes that she first detected autism in her grandson, Christian. “And also getting grandparents — it was very hard for me to tell my son-in-law and my daughter that I really thought something was wrong. Nobody wants to be that messenger.
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“And you can alienate your family by being that messenger. But I was willing to take the risk and [that’s part of what we’re doing with Autism Speaks — raising awareness]. Much like AIDS was a taboo, even breast cancer, nobody wanted to talk about having breast cancer. We have to take the stigma off so grandparents, everybody, will feel at ease to talk to each other about it [if they think] there’s an issue going on with the child.”
* Mr. Wright on the 80% divorce rate in parents of children with autism: “The child requires so much attention and the mother, regardless of whether the mother or the husband is working, the mother ends up being the one who has to quit and has to stay with the child and go through this period of developmental disorder.”
* Mr. and Mrs. Wright on resarching a potential environmental cause for autism. “……. this is very tough scientific work to do. It’s epidemiology and everything. There just hasn’t been the motivation on the part of the [National Institutes of Health] or the part of the CDC to be able to do this, much less the funds. And lastly, there is this issue of looking for biomedical markers, which is another way of saying let’s move away from the gene search, let’s look at conditions that we see and let’s look at the children who have these particular conditions, how they differ from other children. …
Suzanne Wright: “Something happened to Christian. Something happened to him.
Bob Wright: “We’re on a hunt. We’re going to be on a hunt for biomedical markers, which is not the same as a gene search. … I think we’re three or four years away from accomplishing quite a lot. That’s what I believe.”
* Mrs. Wright at the end of the interview. “We’ve now merged with every major autism group in the country. So we are the largest. And I was just invited to Qatar by the princess and the amir [sic]because she is having a symposium over there for special needs children … and over there it’s taboo talking about this. ………. So … I’m going over there with the Ad Council and we’re going to give an hour of Power Point presentation. She’s going to let me show my movie. Only three movies are going to be shown and mine’s one of them. … It’s going to be very global, because it’s a global problem.”
* Mrs. Wright notes that she first detected autism in her grandson, Christian. “And also getting grandparents — it was very hard for me to tell my son-in-law and my daughter that I really thought something was wrong. Nobody wants to be that messenger.
………
“And you can alienate your family by being that messenger. But I was willing to take the risk and [that’s part of what we’re doing with Autism Speaks — raising awareness]. Much like AIDS was a taboo, even breast cancer, nobody wanted to talk about having breast cancer. We have to take the stigma off so grandparents, everybody, will feel at ease to talk to each other about it [if they think] there’s an issue going on with the child.”
* Mr. Wright on the 80% divorce rate in parents of children with autism: “The child requires so much attention and the mother, regardless of whether the mother or the husband is working, the mother ends up being the one who has to quit and has to stay with the child and go through this period of developmental disorder.”
* Mr. and Mrs. Wright on resarching a potential environmental cause for autism. “……. this is very tough scientific work to do. It’s epidemiology and everything. There just hasn’t been the motivation on the part of the [National Institutes of Health] or the part of the CDC to be able to do this, much less the funds. And lastly, there is this issue of looking for biomedical markers, which is another way of saying let’s move away from the gene search, let’s look at conditions that we see and let’s look at the children who have these particular conditions, how they differ from other children. …
Suzanne Wright: “Something happened to Christian. Something happened to him.
Bob Wright: “We’re on a hunt. We’re going to be on a hunt for biomedical markers, which is not the same as a gene search. … I think we’re three or four years away from accomplishing quite a lot. That’s what I believe.”
* Mrs. Wright at the end of the interview. “We’ve now merged with every major autism group in the country. So we are the largest. And I was just invited to Qatar by the princess and the amir [sic]because she is having a symposium over there for special needs children … and over there it’s taboo talking about this. ………. So … I’m going over there with the Ad Council and we’re going to give an hour of Power Point presentation. She’s going to let me show my movie. Only three movies are going to be shown and mine’s one of them. … It’s going to be very global, because it’s a global problem.”
ick. here's the full version for those who care: (broken link) http://ww w.tv we ek.com/ar ticle.cms?art icleId=31726
