Autism Speaks debacle

Posted Monday, September 28th, 2009
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There is a lot going on in the autism blogging world at the moment in response to the new Autism Speaks advertisement. It is a bit more difficult for me to post what I think on it because I am in Australia, there is nothing like that here. So I can’t see for myself the effect it is having on people – autistic and non-autistic.
My mum liked the second half of it, where all the families were were standing with the autistic person. But she didn’t know what to make of the first half. The parts with all those statements about what autism will do…how does anyone know what autism will do?
So here it is:

Apparently Autism Speaks has now withdrawn it from their site due to the amount of protests against it.