garbage organisation that promotes the use of Applied Behavioural Analysis ("treatment" based on conversion therapy that causes trauma to encourage kids to hide symptoms) and advocates for finding a cure to autism
AS is a eugenicist group of patronizing allistics focused on "curing" autism. Their stated beliefs & goals are reprehensible. And they suck up a lot of funding that could go to orgs which actuality support Autistic people.
Good fuck their anti-autism ass, that organization needs to be banned everywhere, this must be the start of their end, we need more support for autistic people
I can’t say I straight up believe you, since the state of the entire internet requires you to fact check everything. But I’ll keep that in the back of my head while I scour around.
Thanks.
A quick internet search can give you all the answers you seek. Even wikipedia scratches the surface of the cesspool that is "A$" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_Speaks
Pseudoscience, collecting the DNA of autistic children without consent, eugenics (advocating for prenatal tests for autism so it can be stamped out of the gene pool), idk if the Canadian branch has done this but the US branch has called parents killing their autistic kids "mercy killing" in the past
and they don't employ autistic people whilst simultaneously hogging the majority of funding for autism orgs in Canada whilst painting autism orgs run BY AUTISTIC PEOPLE as being a "bad for autistic people"
also they're pro-ABA and ABA is literally an offshoot of anti-gay conversion therapy
like ABA was invented by the same guy as anti-gay conversion therapy and uses the exact same techniques/framework
autistic people who undergo ABA are at higher risk for PTSD and being victims of sex crimes (ABA teaches you to never say no to people and to always ignore your own discomfort)
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YIPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!
But jokes aside, violence, torture, screams of "Act NOMAL!", more violence & torture, repeat until "fixed". Same shit, different target.
It's yet another example of how normal guys (pejorative) think abnormal people should be "corrected".
Their priority is normalcy and conformity.
Ivar Løvaas, the creator of ABA, also participated in one of the first queer conversion therapies called "The feminine boy project"
The subject of the study later committed suicide
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1311956/
Huge win for Autistic folks in the room, holy fuck
Cynical me: Presumably they believe that Trump shit about the 51st state is going to come to pass.
isn’t that supposed to be bad?
I can’t say I straight up believe you, since the state of the entire internet requires you to fact check everything. But I’ll keep that in the back of my head while I scour around.
Thanks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_Speaks
(more sources in reply cos couldn't fit)
goodness, why was a company like this even allowed to exist?
Also, thank you for taking the time to look into it ♡
- https://neuroclastic.com/?s=autism+speaks
- https://neurodivergentrebel.com/?s=autism+speaks
Actually based.
also they're pro-ABA and ABA is literally an offshoot of anti-gay conversion therapy
autistic people who undergo ABA are at higher risk for PTSD and being victims of sex crimes (ABA teaches you to never say no to people and to always ignore your own discomfort)