WOW – a must read: ” Success is not only not celebrated, but renders the voice of the person who has succeeded in finding a method of communication no longer autistic enough to be represented by nor relevant to Autism Speaks.”
{image is a screen shot of a tweet: @autismspeaks On 2/25 Autism Speaks turns 10-years-old! Tell us how AS has touched your life at AS10Years@gmail.com #AutismSpeaks10}
{image is a screenshot of a tweet: @stevesilberman Autistic people have taken over the hashtag #AutismSpeaks10 to oppose negative messaging. It’s quite a thing.}
The past couple of weeks have been nothing if not colorful in the world of autism advocacy. It all began when, ahead of its 10th anniversary last Wednesday, Autism Speaks asked its 168,000 Twitter followers and 1.5 million Facebook fans to use the hashtag #AutismSpeaks10 to share “how AS has touched your life.” The response was, I would imagine, not quite what they were hoping it would be.
In an article detailing what happened next, Virginia Hughes, BuzzFeed Science Editor, wrote:
Instead of heartwarming stories of gratitude, the hashtag has sparked hundreds of angry missives from autistic people and…
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