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Autistic people: Abusing, exploiting, torturing, & gaslighting people is bad, actually.
Spectrum10K, Autism Speaks, Sia, Judge Rotenberg Center, Simon Baron Cohen, NextForAutism, ABA therapists, & all their supporters: Not if it's Autistic people being abused! Then abusing them is for their own good. 🙂
#autmisia#ableism#disability tag#ActuallyAutistic#ActuallyDisabled#disability justice#social justice#stop spectrum10k#boycott autism research#discussion not dna#stop killing autistic people#aba therapy#autism speaks#simon baron cohen#sia music#next for autism#color the spectrum#judge rotenberg educational center#judge rotenberg center
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What do you folks think of the new Autism10K research project?
I'm going to agree with the #StopSpectrum10k crowd. It seems deeply concerning. Based on what I've seen so far and how people seem to feel that their questions aren't being addressed, I would not trust them with my DNA.
Autistic people have been saying for years that we would like for research to focus on support, understanding our needs and how to meet them, to help us to live better lives, have better opportunities, dignity and autonomy. We've said for years that research should involve speaking to us.
Our DNA is not required for this. Figuring out why we're autistic is not required for this. Many people are understandably worried about the motive being or leading to eugenics.
I have recently experienced a devastating loss and do not have the energy for digging to formulate a more coherent and informed post about this myself, but from this twitter thread on the matter it seems that:
'The Co-Principal Investigator of #Spectrum10k is a man called Daniel Geschwind. “He guided development of the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange, founded by Cure Autism Now, and now a program of Autism Speaks.” So the man in charge of integrity for this study has worked for ‘Cure Autism Now’.
“His work focuses on identifying genetic factors that cause ASD and then using this knowledge to understand the mechanism of the disease.” [..] He views Autism as a disease. This blog post does a good job of explaining why people are so angry and upset about this study.
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Funny how Autistic people are dubbed by non-autistics as having "no empathy," when non-autistics are the ones who have absolutely NO empathy for Autistic people & consistently abuse us, speak over us, take our voices away, assume they know what's best for us, & actively practice eugenics on us. Every day. Every. Day. And it never stops.
#ActuallyAutistic#ableism#autmisia#disability tag#sia music#autism speaks#aba is abuse#stop spectrum10k#disability justice
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Please don't ask me what these people/organizations did, it's exhausting. Please just go on Twitter & search these tags instead:
#ActuallyAutistic #StopSpectrum10K #ABAIsAbuse #StopTheShock #FuckAutismSpeaks #AutismSpeaksDoesntSpeakForMe #BoycottAutismResearch #DiscussionNotDNA
Autistic people: Abusing, exploiting, torturing, & gaslighting people is bad, actually.
Spectrum10K, Autism Speaks, Sia, Judge Rotenberg Center, Simon Baron Cohen, NextForAutism, ABA therapists, & all their supporters: Not if it's Autistic people being abused! Then abusing them is for their own good. 🙂
#autmisia#ableism#disability tag#actuallyautistic#actuallydisabled#disability justice#social justice#stop spectrum10k#boycott autism research#discussion not dna
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