Aspies For Freedom

jerrynewport Wrote:

Amy Wrote:

Is that the one with a picture of a head opening up? It is ghastly.

        No, but this one has a bust of a head with one hand on the top, in apparent anguish. It is a truly nauseating site, devoted to families who play the victims of "us."

         Worse yet, it hawks the writing of Maxine Aston, who has publicly said that asperger's should be legal grounds to declare somebody an unfit parent.

                                   Jerry Newport

I think you and amy are talking about the same site!!

http://www.faa as.org

A truly disgusting site. Aspophobic in the extreme!

http://www.aspar .klattu.com.au/

another site., Apparently has gotten some irate aspies writing them already

jerrynewport Wrote:

Only in FLORIDUH......

             Check this one out:

                          http://www.gnd .org

          GND = Jeff Bradstreet, leading proponent of chelation, who claims to have "successfully treated" over 1600 autistic children.

         It is cloaked in fundamentalist Christian packaging.
The opening video is priceless but I really love the part about Dr Jeff that touts his "knowledge of scripture" as his main qualification to deliver us all from autism.

        Hey, why stop at a cure? Not only do Dr Jeff's clients speak, some of them wind up speaking in tongues!!

                           Enjoy

                      Jerry Newport

Yeah I see several parents on Babycenter (a parenting site) ASD Board that are 'clients' of his. Ugh!

http://www.newlife learning.com/

here is another one. and it seems that stephen shore is featured there!

What is even more amazing , is that stephen shore sits on the board of unlockingautism.org!!!! the worst of the worst

jerrynewport Wrote:

          On the other hand, his presentations and books are very good and he has never embarassed us as some public auties have done.

               Nobody's perfect.

                              Jerry Newport

No that is true, I wonder which public auties you refer to?? You never gave one way or another about my protests. I wonder if you are refereing to that? if so please explain what you think and why.

Brightman Wrote:

Also, what right will we have to complain about someone elses harsh opinion of this site if we are slagging off others?

jeesh

always a killjoy in the group eh?

I was trying to be humourous as well

I am sure brighty got it

LOL

Ok, Generation Rescue needs to find a home on here since I can't stand them and their statements that Autism, ADHD and such is a myth and is just different levels of mercury poisoning and they even have rescue angels in many areas to help with info and help chelating your child and testing them... so here it is:

http://www.generation rescue.org

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Nemidaelius Wrote:

I am not sure if this is a recent phenomenon, but it seems people will do anything to put themselves in a position of apparent disadvantage or hardship because it gives them ability to bargain/converse from a position of moral strength.

Otherwise known as playing the sympathy card. Princess Diana was particularly fond if this. Watching the infamous Martin Bashir interview nearly a decade ago, I was reminded of Katie Roiphe's polemical book The Morning After: Sex, fear and feminism in which she critcized the willingness of feminists to embrace the role of the victim. Small wonder that Diana was hailed as some great feminist icon!

Not sure whether it was always the sympathy card she was playing. She was only second in Charles' life, not first, to Camilla and Charles ruined that. I can't see how one could fault her unhappiness knowing that the man she married had rather married his mistress. Charles wasn't exactly innocent of adultery after all.

Hey Wolfy

I often expereinced anxiety when if when I ot coffee at 7-11 and the coffee bar was full of people. Never really knew why. But the crowd of people is disconcerting.

here is a web site that seems pretty innocuous
http://www.thekidsranch.org/

I even like the idea. it just when they explain autism and give statistics like

75-80% of persons with Autism also have mental retardation.

that is suspect

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Plus - name me one person here who hasnt experienced severe anxiety as a result of their difficulties.

I do not currently experience social anxiety. I tend to avoid social situations mainly because I believe that I have little in common with most people. Social situations do not make me feel particularly nervous, though.

monastic Wrote:

This has got to be one of the top ten worthless anti-autistic sites I have ever seen! I googled autism and came up with this hate-filled site.

http://66.221.49.64/autismfacts /index.html

The site basically calls folks like us here at AFF liars for stating we are autistic and says some pretty horrible things about us and our wish not to be cured. Maybe they are trying to get nasty letters sent to them so that they can say, "See what these people are like?" I've been too mad to send them any email response, to date. :evil:

That is one hateful site, and it's just sick to say that there are no intellegent adult autistics who can communicate. I'm one of those who was extremely shy as a child, yet is above average intellegence. I was only diagnosed within the last year as having Asperger's as an adult because back when I was a child, the only kind of autism people knew about is the low-functioning type, not the extremely high-functioning type that a lot of us have.

The only thing that's being done is getting help with interview skills, this after only having speech therapy in elementary school. When I was a child, people couldn't diagnose me, so I got just speech therapy which helped me to function normally except for handling job interviews. The psychologist who made the diagnosis told me that once I got a job, I'd be able to live independently. During high school and especially college, I got no help from the disabled services because I clearly did not qualify. Maybe if I had been the low-functioning autistic like this person believes every autistic is, then and only then would I have needed those services.

http://forums. delphiforums.com/ASPartners

This is being discussed on another forum, but this to me has to be one of the worst hate sites I've seen.

Here's a curbie group I just heard about on the radio recently:
http://www. tacanow.com/(broken link) It's based in California, and they are one of the sponsors of the local CAN walk, and was started by parents who have autistic children.

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