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.

  • carbon_based
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    4 months ago

    Exactly, I wanted to see the Down-ish looking person is displayed but was too lazy to first look at the most obvious place, or recognise my ambiguity. Sorry to disturb.
    And yes there are eugenicist agitators posing as experts. Makes it sort of mandatory to work against.

    • Persen@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      As you started with this topic, how did those people even become the most popular autism related (to avoid the term advocacy, as they are not advocating for us, but against us) organisation?

      • Lhianna@feddit.org
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        4 months ago

        Money.

        Bob Wright who founded the organization with his wife was/is a lawyer, lobbyist and businessman, at the time they founded the organization he was chairman and executive of NBC. So he had the money and knew the right people.

      • carbon_based
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        4 months ago

        I’m not OP, and I learned about AS only through this community but didn’t investigate further (different continent). So I can only speculate: there’s a lot of revenue to be made from therapy and pharma if you find a new niche. A fundamentally wrong popular bias, reinforced by pouring massive money into advertising helps that a lot.

        To me it also smacks a lot like a part of that post-humanism psy-op. Some (influential) people really want to have “Brave New World” become reality (or “Gattaca”?) – the “perfect” human machine; engineered and gated; divergence is a flaw. The rest goes happily with the narrative. There was someone posting their dismay about an interview with a person they previously liked, maybe already a year ago. The person in the interview was speaking of how autism should get removed from the gene pool …

        • Persen@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          As for the Wikipedia I read, people in BNW are selective breading for intelligence, which is at least somewhat proven, so it’s still better, than AS, who just seek to discriminate against autistics, which shouldn’t even be considered as a bad trait. So it’s worse, than the movies. PS: Thanks for the bonus movie recommendations.