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Posted on May 6 at 2:59 p.m.Suggest removal
LauraGibbs -You are quite correct for once... I don't intend on having a proper dialogue with you. Do you realize how pompous you seem?
I don't speak for everyone who has read your comments but most autistic people who has read this column (trust me, I didn't bother to gripe about you while linking it) and discussed it were horribly offended by you. You are one of the worst kinds of bigots. Self-righteous, well meaning and ill informed. I hope it is a coincidence that you have the same name as a staff member at OU. If you are indeed an educator I hope you realize that you are breaking the American Disability Act with YOUR inflammatory language.
I have no problem seeing that there are multiple views to any subject. I hope someone with a cooler head than myself can help you "learn" about this topic. You commented about my use of inflammatory language but haven't I seen you negatively commenting most of Zac's columns? I wonder what you would have thought if I hadn't been working on filtering my thoughts before sending them out to the public and had blurted out my first thoughts on you.
It would have been along the lines of saying "no wonder you are foolish enough to fall for Autism Speaks' front, you fell for the Christianity ruse. Can I assume you are a registered Republican?" but that would actually be inflammatory. My disgust with Christianity and the Republican party have no place being mentioned here.
Regardless of any words exchanged between the two of us the claim that Zac Smith is more hysterical than AutismSpeaks is audacious to say the least. Have you been able to disprove a single statement in his article? I doubt it.
Posted on May 6 at 12:18 p.m.Suggest removal
P.S. LauraGibbs. Almost every statement you've made comes off as condescending but most especially when you say "Thank you for your thoughtful comments, myergeau. As an autistic person able to speak for yourself and attend college, I can understand how talk of a "cure" for autism is something that could have a very negative sound for you."
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"You do not think autism is a medical disorder; that is an opinion which many people agree with and it is important for that opinion to be voiced. AutismSpeaks does think autism is a medical disorder; that is also an opinion that many people agree with, and that opinion is what is voiced at their website."
and then you geniusly go on to complain about everyone else "putting words in other people's mouths." when you are the one presumes the previous commenter does not think of autism as a disorder. I had to reread their comment many times over but I am fairly certain that they never claimed it wasn't a disorder. It is possible to see things in shades of grey.
Once again LauraGibbs let me stress to you that I am sure you mean no harm but you obviously know little on the subject you are so assuredly speaking about. I don't mean to dwell on any of this or harp on you but it is important that you realize how very important this topic is to many people and how grateful the autistic community in general is to have the many core problems with AutismSpeaks addressed in this article.
Posted on May 6 at 11:47 a.m.Suggest removal
After reading through some more comments I feel the need to add to my last rambling comment. I myself am Asperger's autistic and my daughter is Kanner's autistic (the "very different" form of autism mentioned) and I am all about TREATMENT. There is a huge difference between treatment and a cure. My daughter goes to neurosensory therapy and it has done wonders. I hope to never have to look into medication as an option but I am positive that I will never support Autism Speaks in any way shape or form. I wish the general public knew how very corrupt they are.
"All-white NAACP" is right. How can they continue to run without taking into account any adult autistic perspectives? They make a shameful display of what it is to be the parent of an autistic child. I do have many more challenges than the parents of neurotypical children but using that as an excuse for terrible parenting is despicable. We've heard about "refrigerator mothers" but if an autistic parent is unfit to raise NT children in any way wouldn't a NT parent be equally unfit to care for their autistic child? That is simply flawed logic. Who's to say we autistics shouldn't be working on a cure for neutypical stupidity? Autism is a disorder and few people would argue the semantics on that. It is highly offensive for it to labeled a disease though.
LauraGibbs, do you have any idea what you are talking about? It seems like you lurk on Zac's columns to pick fights or assert your superior intelligence... not that I believe you to be superior in any way but that you exude this stench of ego.
Posted on May 6 at 3:37 a.m.Suggest removal
Well done. Thank you so much for linking to the ASAN page. If only they were as widely embraced as AutismSpeaks.
I understand that for many readers of this column it is only natural to take the opposite stance, if you are familiar with his previous articles and hold personal differences, but can't you see the flaw in simply arguing without really knowing what you're talking about? Of course a page from the AutismSpeaks site will represent them well. That is entirely the point of propaganda. I guess it is appropriate enough considering the attention and support AutismSpeaks has garnered from so many well meaning "advocates". AutismSpeaks is the furthest thing from an advocacy network and it sickens me every time I hear/read them claiming to be such. Calling AutismSpeaks an advocacy network is comparable to the nazi party selling itself as "JudaismSpeaks". I am rambling by now but I don't mind since I have read the handful of earlier replies that have really hit the nail on the head.
Again, I thank you for this article. I have been trying to find a way to articulate the core problems with Autism Speaks and I think you have done so very well.
Posted on April 29 at 3:54 a.m.Suggest removal
"The author is not a big fan of the moral demands of a holy God."
Wow. I don't even know what to say. I feel like you missed most of the column you're bitching about.
"And here we get to the jest of the column."
Do you mean jist?
Your counterpoint seems to be a set of your presumptions as to what the other author was thinking. How do you assert that the intention was to mock? For example, you seem to be a moron but I can't really be sure now can I?
Posted on March 11 at 5:47 p.m.Suggest removal
Oh, Zac. I am so thankful to live in Portland, Oregon. Not because of yourself of course but rather the ethical climate. I personally equate extreme cookie-cutter athiests to anarchists. In the same way that the overzealous anarchists (hello! You're an organized group against organized government?!) make the majority of protesters look terrible I think the black-clad stereotypical athiests have made the rational non-believers a joke. I identify myself as an agnostic athiest is asked. Though I've been tempted to worship the great Spaghetti Monster:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gosp...
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Posted on May 6 at 5:04 p.m.Suggest removal
"...sweeping and inflammatory statements which I believe are clearly disproved by the information I provided in my first comment."
I do not think they are disproven.
The only reason I insulted you was to illustrate that I was resisting inflammatory speech earlier. I actually left out the vulgar bits that are still crossing my mind.
I hope you looked at the link I left. It might provide better reference to what so many of us have found objectionable about AutismSpeaks.
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