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Just in case people don't know how horrifying Autism Speaks is, I'm gonna do a little thread:
A woman who held a leadership position in the organisation contemplated killing her autistic child.
A campaign video from AS presents autism as a condition which takes over children's souls and 'works faster than AIDs cancer and diabetes' combined and 'makes sure your marriage fails'.
Autism Speaks associates with the Judge Rotenberg Centre, a school noted for being the only one in the world to use electric aversives on its pupils. Many of pupils are autistic.
https://www.autistichoya.com/2013/11/an-unholy-alliance-autism-speaks-and.html?m=1
News report on JRC available here. Trigger warning.
https://www.autistichoya.com/2013/11/an-unholy-alliance-autism-speaks-and.html?m=1
News report on JRC available here. Trigger warning.
Now if all of that wasn't bad enough, how would you feel if I told you that Autism Speaks was once praised and sponsored by a Neo-Nazi street gang? http://nosmag.org/soldiers-of-odin-autism-speaks-canada-look-into-it/
Christ that's bad, well, what about vaccines? Well, lets just say that AS were definitely an open anti-vaxx group right up until 2009. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/325/5937/135.1
They are also, by all accounts, a pro-eugenics organisation, partnering with Google to do a gene sequencing project which seeks to 'understand autism'. https://www.autismspeaks.org/science-news/autism-speaks-mssng-project-reaches-10000-genome-milestone
