No Autistics Allowed One Year Later

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No Autsitics Allowed One Year Later

Autism Society Canada Builds a Ghetto

by Dawson

Excerpt: " We disagree that all positive views of autism must be attacked,

for example on the grounds that " good " autistics are so rare as to be

irrelevant. "

Full text at: http://www.sentex.net/~nexus23/naa_one.html

(This may have accidentally been posted twice, apologies if it has been)

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Taken directly from the article. The 2nd paragraph here is especially

telling. I have argued many times with people who thought I was a terrible

mother

for making my child endure the horrors of ABA and trying to " change " him. I

sure don't see any of those folks volunteering to come clean poop out of my

carpet. I am now to the point that I just don't care to hear (or read) their

dribble anymore.

<<.) ASC " " s federal funding, according to Deborah Tunis, Director General

of the Office for Disability Issues (ODI), is granted on the basis that ASC is

a group of parents fighting for early behaviour interventions for their young

autistic children. This is the definition of a FEAT group. Since ASC has taken

a legal position indistinguishable from Canada’s FEAT groups, and has a FEAT

affiliate, and has little in common with autism societies like the UK’s

National Autistic Society, it is accurate to describe ASC as the world’s first

national FEAT group.

22.) FEAT groups are not known for welcoming autistic people, or for

respecting the possibility that our differences are not akin to fatal diseases.

ASC

itself applauds the autism equals cancer equation on its website; this also is

the legal position ASC supports. Autistics willing to contribute to ASC by

paying to join its provincial/territorial members, and those selected by ASC for

its autistic ghetto, are then in a position of funding and supporting their own

denigration. Encouraging this phenomenon, as ASC and Dr Stoddart are doing,

shows an extreme absence of basic respect and ethics. >>

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I am confused? Where did this article come from and what is ASC?

Hope all is well with the baby! Liz.

On 9/17/04 11:21 AM, " whcmccain@... " <whcmccain@...> wrote:

> Taken directly from the article. The 2nd paragraph here is especially

> telling. I have argued many times with people who thought I was a terrible

> mother

> for making my child endure the horrors of ABA and trying to " change " him. I

> sure don't see any of those folks volunteering to come clean poop out of my

> carpet. I am now to the point that I just don't care to hear (or read) their

> dribble anymore.

>

>

> <<.) ASC " " s federal funding, according to Deborah Tunis, Director General

> of the Office for Disability Issues (ODI), is granted on the basis that ASC is

> a group of parents fighting for early behaviour interventions for their young

> autistic children. This is the definition of a FEAT group. Since ASC has taken

> a legal position indistinguishable from Canada¹s FEAT groups, and has a FEAT

> affiliate, and has little in common with autism societies like the UK¹s

> National Autistic Society, it is accurate to describe ASC as the world¹s first

> national FEAT group.

> 22.) FEAT groups are not known for welcoming autistic people, or for

> respecting the possibility that our differences are not akin to fatal

> diseases. ASC

> itself applauds the autism equals cancer equation on its website; this also is

> the legal position ASC supports. Autistics willing to contribute to ASC by

> paying to join its provincial/territorial members, and those selected by ASC

> for

> its autistic ghetto, are then in a position of funding and supporting their

> own

> denigration. Encouraging this phenomenon, as ASC and Dr Stoddart are doing,

> shows an extreme absence of basic respect and ethics. >>

>

>

>

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Hi Liz,

I'm not sure where the article came from. Someone posted the link on this

list. It is an article written by someone who is against the fact that the

Autism Society of Canada has called ABA the only known effective intervention

for

children with autism. (No mention of the fact that ABA is only the

intervention which has been proven through studies to be effective in children

with

autism.) Parents in Canada, just like millions of families here in the US, have

had to fight to get ABA for their children. It is clear that the writer of this

article is NOT a fan of ABA or FEAT. Of course, she is not the first person

to be anti-ABA. I just wish these folks would educate themselves a little

better.

The baby is kicking away at my bladder as we speak. I am thankful for every

little pain I feel! Thanks for asking! Hope all is well with you and your

family!