AspieWeb has sent a reply to the legal DMCA take down notice received through our manufacturer, plus were making a shirt (and even more merchandise) to commemorate this historic and stupid move of Autism Speaks!
Wednesday afternoon I crafted the following response to the manufacturer and have yet to receive a response.
Hello,
I produced the following shirt to protest the oppression of Autistic People by Autism Speaks Inc.
I would like to know the exact policy that you used when making the below described decision, as well as a copy of the original complaint from Autism Speaks Inc.
In order to commemorate such a historic and stupid move by an advocacy organization I have created the following merchandise – get yours today!
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thts rediculous what about autistic children that cnt speak at all i think you are stupid; hooray for all the kids with autism and can speak im happy for them but my brother cant and i think this is a great program…go jump off a bridge.
Autism Speaks helps people. You Anti-Autism Speaks people need to keep your mouths shut!!! You aren’t doing anything to help these kids, so stand aside, unless you have something good to offer!!!
Thank you for standing up to Autism Speaks!! Autism Speaks does not speak for me or my 2 kids with autism. Way to go! I appreciate your conviction and your insight as an Aspie. You know what you want and need and Austim Speaks is not a help or a support. In fact, Autism speaks has NO CLUE what it is like to have autism, or what people with autism need and want. Keep up the the good work. You are an inspiration to Aspie’s everywhere!!
I believe that autism speaks has the potential to be an outstanding program, but i do believe they need to get some autistic people on board. And also i dont think they pretend to speak for autistic people, but instead focus on raising awareness.
talk about rights you say give autistics the right to speak, labeling them saying that they are not people that the autism is who they are, and in deed it is not, autism is what they have not who they are.
onto the autism speaks, did you know over half of the children diagnosed with autism every day have some sort of language delay, maybe not non verbal but some have repetitive speech, which sometimes may cause those “normal” people to not understand or want to understand the children with autism that have the repetivtive speech. Autism speaks doesnt say everyone that has autism has to form together and give them money, however for the families that have children with autism, autism speaks is more about getting the word out there that these children need to be treated like every other child with autism.
with all that being said i believe that autism speaks has to many mothers and fathers and doctors that have done research on autism and no one that has autism… my 14 year old son comes home daily telling me how he feels nothing inside his heart because he doesnt have any friends, when in fact he has friends…just not true friends. these children that are becoming adults and adults who have been diagnosed should be very involved with what these organizations are doing, they probably would all benifit from it
Rashonta, if that’s true, then why does Autism Speaks treat autism as some kind of pariah status and then prosecute actual autistics and families of autistics that dare stand up to their questionable rhetoric? Let alone those who poke a little fun at an organization that takes itself far too seriously.
And pardon me– but boo hoo– your kid has no friends. That sometimes happens even if you aren’t autistic– especially in grade school. I can’t tell you how many perfectly lovely people I’ve met (autistic and not) who didn’t really have “true friends” until later in life. Face it, most kids are dicks and they’re going to be dicks no matter what organization is weeping and bleeding for ‘the cause’. Autism Speaks is not going to make little Timmy stop beating little Erik’s head against the wall because he doesn’t like the way Erik prefers to talk to the birds rather than the other kids on the playground. Timmy will just wait until the teacher isn’t around to preach at him and do it anyway.
Nevertheless– I wish your son the best and I hope he does well in life and has many friends once he gets out of school and around real human beings.