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In reply to the discussion: Autistic People Spark Twitter Fight Against Autism Speaks [View all]HuckleB
(35,773 posts)22. Autism Speaks doesn't get to speak for everyone either.
And it certainly doesn't get to play the games that demean the lives of all people with autism.
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Autism Speaks: "Every 11 minutes someone receives a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder."
proverbialwisdom
Feb 2015
#4
here is Autism Speaks infamous commerical - try to imagine just how offensive this could be
Douglas Carpenter
Feb 2015
#5
IMO, tremendous latent potential exists in the greater autism community if all the infighting stops.
proverbialwisdom
Feb 2015
#19
Individuals with autism and the parents of children with autism are ALL DIRECT STAKEHOLDERS.
proverbialwisdom
Feb 2015
#24
130 new cases of autism are diagnosed in the US each day. Keep provoking meaningless division.
proverbialwisdom
Mar 2015
#29
The CDC focuses on communicable disease, food borne illness, and the like
Cal Carpenter
Mar 2015
#44
Nope, nah, nah, no, not at all. The CDC studied autism intensively in Brick Township, NJ in 1998.
proverbialwisdom
Mar 2015
#45
Don't like Blaxill's work? Princeton, Harvard MBA, founding partner 3LP, author, autism dad: SOLID.
proverbialwisdom
Mar 2015
#50
Don't like mushrooms? Try spinach and artichoke hearts on your pizza. SOLID.
Cal Carpenter
Mar 2015
#53
They appear to have dumped Aut$peaks in favor of New York Collaborates 4 Autism
KamaAina
Mar 2015
#38
More nuance please! Does the Autism Speaks program below 'help or hurt'?
proverbialwisdom
Mar 2015
#39
I have something serious previously posted for you to check out, in particular, Dr. Insel's remarks.
proverbialwisdom
Mar 2015
#46