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Does Advocacy Become Extortion?

January 20, 2009

I ran into an new piece on a man who is disabled to a wheelchair who goes around to businesses and and documents violations of the American’s With Disabilities Act (ADA) and then sues them – making over $100,000 USD a year!

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Why Is Autism Speaks So Bad?

June 24, 2008

I’ve received a lot of inquiries as of late about why I and other people dislike Autism Speaks, and I think its important that people understand why I think Autism Speaks does not in fact support Autistic People, read more for some examples

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Abuse And Autism Advocacy

May 18, 2008

More and more Autistic people keep complaining about how organizations describe Autism as “a disaster” or an epidemic.  Well one parent decided to write an email to one of these organizations – and she got a horrific response which you can read. (CONTAINS STRONG LANAGUAGE)

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VIDEO: How ‘Normal’ People Can Help Autistic People

May 11, 2008

I found this great video on Video about how normal people (referred to as NT) in the video can help Autistic People in life and in advocating for themselves.  It was produced very well.

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