Anonymous: What's wrong with autism speaks?
dearnonacepeople:
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.)