This is the most comprehensive masterpost about the problems with the organization Autism Speaks.

trigger warnings: #eugenics #murder

A quick summary of some points in that masterpost:

• Autism Speaks has no actually autistic adults on its board
• Only 4% of Autism Speaks’ budget goes toward services for autistic adults and families of autistic people
• Autism Speaks focuses on research with the goal of eradicating autism rather than changing the world to be more accepting of and comfortable for autistic people
• Members of Autism Speaks’ board sympathize with parents who have murdered their autistic children

- metapianycist (I’m an autistic adult, btw, and so is the person who compiled the masterpost above.)