Autism Sneaks
Autism Sneaks
I didn't want to cook for myself tonight, but I read somewhere that the place I started ordering from is a sponsor of Autism Speaks.
Before placing the order, I tried to go on the AS website to check it out but I kept getting distracted by the stream of donation alerts that popped up at the bottom of the page.
It took me an additional five or so minutes to review their partnerships because it was so overstimulating.
Sadly on brand.
As an example of the opposite, I recently got into a YouTube channel that does very involved videos about appliances (technology connections). It’s absolutely my bag, and I suspect that the audience is more neurodiverse than average.
I was super excited to see a video about fire alarms, but nearly didn’t watch it at all, because I did not want to hear one. I put it on mute with subtitles and the first thing the creator said was, “just so you know, I won’t be setting off any alarm sounds.” 🥰
At this point Technology Connections can be considered Lemmy's patron youtuber.
I thought you were gonna say technology connections was advocating for autism speaks, and I was about to have my day ruined
Okay, this is the silliest thing, and it's very autistic of me. I used to watch him religiously but can't anymore because of his opinion on power sockets. He believes that it's superfluous having switches by every wall socket. I grew up in Australia, where we do have those switches unlike the US where he's from, and I believe he is objectively incorrect. To be fair to me, this isn't a onetime rant or opinion, it's an ingoing series of videos, as well as many response videos by other creators. He does make good content though, and I don't mean to spoil you on watching him at all, because this is the mildest of reasons to dislike someone 😅
Why do you want the switch??
Tell us why you want the switch please?
I’m from the UK where we also have switches, but I never toggle them; so they seem useless to me. We also have the safest plugs, so more don’t really need switches.
The only people I’ve seen use switches are the people that think saving 2p a year by turning them off is good, or my OCD (not shaming, I’m neurodiverse myself) brother would turn everything off at night and it was a pain in the morning having to remember to turn switches back on.
email them about it, they might not know. keep it anonymous I'd say
Autism Speaks might not know how overstimulating their site is or the sponsor might not know Autism Speaks is a potential hate group?
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Hi! I got here from the "everything" tab, while I don't have autism myself I want to support those with autism as best as I can. I have often seen that Autism Speaks is problematic, but I don't fully understand why, can someone please explain it to me?
Just a few points, you'll find much more just putting "autism speaks controversy" into the search engine of your choice.
They view autism as a disease that needs to be cured.
They made videos saying autism will destroy your marriage, your family and your life.
They advocate to develop prenatal testing for autism with the goal of having women abort their supposedly autistic babies.
Thank you!
They treat autism as a disease to be cured, which is a disgusting way to think about it. Their founder also claimed that it's "possible" that autism is caused by vaccines, which is scientifically disproven. There are also no autistic members of their board, which means no actual representation for the people they claim to want to help.
Thank you!
There are a lot of reasons, but I think this article does a good job of listing the main criticisms: https://www.themarysue.com/the-autism-speaks-controversy-explained/
But in a nutshell:
- They frame autism as a disease that needs curing
- None of their board members are autistic
- They spread fear and misinformation about autism
- As a charity, embarrassingly little of their money goes to actually doing anything for autistic people
Thank you!
Well, donation/purchase popups are already a very big red flag in itself. Scam sites use them to drive FOMO. I have never heard of Autism Speaks so I don't know about this particular case.
In case you ever have to go back to Autism Speaks' website, or a similar one;
Try running NoScript browser plugin, or something similar. It shut down the distracting notifications for me.
Don't know which browser you use but I've found that if you put a little effort into it and use one that supports some good plugins you can cut out a lot of the most annoying things on the internet.
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I use Firefox as well so NoScript is available to you for stopping those unwanted popups.
Is it intentional, that the person's face slightly resembles a down syndrome face? This is how they view us, no matter the evidence against it.
Can you give a link?Don't mind, I found it out (it's the AS website itself).You mean this: https://www.autismspeaks.org/. I meant the evidence of us usually not being intellectually disabled.