Autism Speaks is a huge, powerful and wealthy charity.

In the words of it's co-founder its aim is to make autism "a word for the history books."

She has also said, "we try to stem the tide and ultimately eradicate autism for the sake of future generations. If we continue our current trajectory, we’ll get there in my lifetime."

The charity's latest stunt is the release of a video featuring shots of actual autistic people, shown alone at first and then surrounded by their families while a sinister voice-over anthropomorphises autism as a malevolent force destroying lives.

It was created by Academy Award-nominated director Alfonso Cuarón and Grammy-nominated songwriter/producer Billy Mann.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDdcDlQVYtM

Trancript of film by Codeman38
http://aut.zone38.net/2009/09/23/autism-speaks-hits-a-new-low/
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I am autism.

I’m visible in your children, but if I can help it, I am invisible to you until it’s too late.

I know where you live, and guess what? I live there too. I hover around all of you.

I know no color barrier, no religion, no morality, no currency. I speak your language fluently, and with every voice I take away, I acquire yet another language.

I work very quickly. I work faster than pediatric AIDS, cancer, and diabetes combined.

And if you are happily married, I will make sure that your marriage fails. Your money will fall into my hands, and I will bankrupt you for my own self-gain.

I don’t sleep, so I make sure you don’t either. I will make it virtually impossible for your family to easily attend a temple, a birthday party, a public park, without a struggle, without embarrassment, without pain.

You have no cure for me. Your scientists don’t have the resources, and I relish their desperation.

Your neighbors are happier to pretend that I don’t exist, of course, until it’s their child. I am autism.

I have no interest in right or wrong. I derive great pleasure out of your loneliness. I will fight to take away your hope. I will plot to rob you of your children and your dreams.

I will make sure that every day you wake up, you will cry, wondering ‘who will take care of my child after I die?’ And the truth is, I am still winning, and you are scared, and you should be.

I am autism.

You ignored me.

That was a mistake.



It is a grotesque travesty of a film, filled with falsehoods, bigotry and hate. It does not represent our views on autism and autistic people. It vilifies autistic people, and we will not stand for it.

Autism Speaks does not speak for us. (read less)

Autism Speaks is a huge, powerful and wealthy charity.

In the words of it's co-founder its aim is to make autism "a word for the history books."

She has also said, "we try to stem the tide and ultimately eradicate autism for the sake of future generations. If we continue our current trajectory, we’ll get there in my lifetime."

The charity's latest stunt is the release of a video featuring shots of actual autistic people, shown alone at first and then surrounded by their families while a... (read more)