I don't know of any websites off the top of my head, but it seems like anytime I read an article about autism in any parenting magazine, newspaper, etc the stories are the exact same.
Billly was a perfectly normal, happy baby and then one day around 18 months of age he started losing speech, wouldn't make eye contact, yadda yadda yadda........
I can't relate to any of this with my child. Can't anyone write about anyother type of autism? We knew from the day she was born that she was just like my husband and my brother in law, we just didn't know that they had aspergers.
Annie
So many bad sites, so little time.....
My unfavorite is the one for FAAAS, aka "Families afflicted with Asperger Syndrome"
Jerry
Man, the one Wolfy posted seriously sucks...we all love amateur psychoanalysis of large groups one hasn't even met. Mayhap you could return the favor, tell him he only thinks that way because of an unresolved Oedipus Complex.
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
echolalia is a normal stage in the development of nts: it lasts longer (maybe because it has more purpose) in autists.
Are Maxine Aston's words in print anywhere, Jerry? I'd like to know the details of where and when she made that statement.
I heard it from a friend who is in AANE and ANI. I will ask him about that.
Jerry
i hate that faas site to i aslo read there terrible aspie bashing book about famile sliving with adults with AS.
[quote=jerrynewport]
Living with Asperger's
Jul 11, 2002
Research supported by the National Autistic Society into the intimate relationships of couples where one partner is affected by Asperger's shows that men with the condition tend to choose partners who are maternal, strong, and with nurturing qualities, often older than themselves. Women are attracted to men who appear to be kind, gentle and slightly immature, and who flatter with obsessive attention.
Hey!! I didn't write that. Maxine Aston did. I quoted her. I get enough criticism without being blamed for stuff I didn't write. Please be more careful about how you quote what people say.
Jerry Newport
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
http://www.newlifelearning.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
Steve Shore is a mixed blessing. He doesn't publicly buy into any of the bizarre theories of the boards he is on but he will sit on literally any board in order to use it to line up more speaking appearances. He doesn't get it and I have given up trying to educate him on how what he does is not in our interests. He is a professional autistic poster boy.
Rather than try to find other peers who can sit on boards and actually make a contribution, Steve is happy to sit on every board in sight and be everyone's token. Totally self serving. I don't make a habit of criticizing my peers in public but this is a warranted exception.
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
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.
I never said anything about what you did because I never noticed it. I certainly don't think protesting embarasses us. I referred to behavior on the part of people not on this list which has set us back, particularly the behavior of some people who were board members of autism organizations.
Jerry
One thing that I find so thoroughly irksome about these autism web sites is the emotive language, the kind of language that conjures up mental images of someone wringing out their hanky. Does this particularly apply to autism, or are all web sites about kiddie disorders similarly overwrought?
I reluctantly agree with you. Lots of parents are big on self-pity. They love to play the victim.
Jerry Newport
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:
Autism Awareness UK ebay shop
Recent survery shows that 90% of pets wear ID, and less 1% of missing children with Autism wear one.
Are they comparing an Autistic child to a pet?
No they are not, they are implying that parents of autistic children who have a tendency to run away (some autistic children are wonderful escape artists and try to run away or break out of the house at any given opportunity, day or night) should make sure that their children have some form of ID on them so they can be returned if they manage to run away.
I understand the problems involved. I could have written my question better. It appeared to me that they were comparing the actions of a child to a pet. It also could appear that they were comparing a parent’s common sense towards their pet that they may lack towards their own child.
Yes it sounded like a rather patronising attempt to get parents to fork out for a product. I do agree that if a child is prone to escaping etc, he or she should be equipped with an ID bracelet or similar thing but there's no need for that kind of advertising. A parent who is worried about their child going missing is feeling rotten enough without being given an added guilt complex by a company or individual trying to make money.