From DisabilityScoops: Groups Outraged Over Video Released by Autism Speaks

The video in question is in the post. What do you think? Personally, I found the first half of the video pretty stigmatizing/fear-based and the comments kinda rage inducing (couldn't help but notice it was almost all parents speaking for their children... almost no one with autism).

ETA: Autism Speaks has apparently pulled the video due to controversy and a pretty good deconstruction of the claims the video makes, from a woman with Autism, here.

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	notjo 2009-10-03 02:15 pm UTC (link)
	And then, when their parents murder them later, we're supposed to feel bad for the parents, because gosh - it's just so hard, you know? [There were two murder-suicides that I heard of last month, of parents killing their disabled child and then themselves, and I've been very appalled at the general reactions to both.] (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

frequentmouse
2009-10-03 06:36 pm UTC (link)

Having been both the unmedicated trauma abuse victim neurologically imperfect (ADHD plus extra side dishes) child and the parent of a teenager with ADHD (now a self-reliant and yet still sometimes annoying young adult who belongs to journalfen) I find it discomforting to get all judgy about the behavior of others who have exceded their reality limits. YMMV and all, but I find it difficult enough to make the right decisions about my own life, and have long since gotten the "should" out of my social vocabulary.

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