Shortly after first learning about Aspergers, I excitedly began learning how I could be an advocate for young Aspies. I thought I could walk a middle ground without being involved in politics. Sometime during the first week in March of 2010, I realized being an advocate for a worldly cause was not what God would have me doing. My heart’s desire is more towards the salvation of those who are lost.
The information below is as far as I got with exposés. Maybe I’ll add to it, but if I do, it probably won’t amount to much more than what you already see here:
My list of organizations I would endorse:
- ASAN — Autistic Self Advocacy Network
- Autism Acceptance Project
- ANI — Autism Network International
- WrongPlanet.net — Online resource and community for Autism and Aspergers
My list of organizations I would not endorse:
- Autism Speaks — Celebrities donate their financial wealth to “Cure Autism Now”
- Autism Society of America — Hudson Valley Autism Club — (Why)
- Anderson Center for Autism — (Read This)
Thank you Club 166 for informing us on how the Massachusetts and New York legislatures hate autistics.
A book I would not endorse:
by Patricia Romanowski Bashe and Barbara L. Kirby
Here’s a book I would endorse:
by John M. Ortiz, Ph.D.
The organizations that have too much of a complex mixture of good and bad for me to decide which category to list them under, or are ones I’m not familiar enough yet with to be pro or con on, could possibly end up listed below what’s already here:
GRASP — The Global and Regional Asperger Syndrome Partnership. What doesn’t look good about GRASP to me is that its leader, Michael John Carley, collaborates with Autism Speaks.
I realize Mr. Carley’s intentions may be good, but wisdom dictates one should exercise caution before getting involved with people who have proven themselves to be untrustworthy. Personally, I wouldn’t follow a leader who seems to be lacking in discretion. Discretion is the better part of valour [a proverb which means: it may sometimes be better to avoid a dangerous situation than to confront it].
If Mr. Carley isn’t confronting Autism Speaks, as they deserve to be, then that’s even worse. Either GRASP needs Autism Speaks or Autism Speaks needs GRASP and whoever is the needy one ends up the loser. I can’t see how Autism Speaks needs anything from anyone, especially since they’re already so powerful. GRASP, from my perspective, looks like it’s acting needy towards Autism Speaks, because it wants Autism Speaks to stop talking about people on the autism spectrum in such a destructive manner. Autism Speaks will naturally comply, because they can gain more by the information GRASP gives them than GRASP can by getting Autism Speaks to tone down their negativity towards spectrumites.
Whoever thinks talking politically/socially correct solves corruption is sorely deluded.
Some other books I would endorse are mentioned on my Links page and Aspergers post.
