Re: the next award goes to.....

[Guest guest]

jypsy posted:

>Honoree and Guest Speaker Maurice, autism activist and noted

>author of Let Me Hear Your Voice: A Family's Triumph Over Autism, will

>accept the Milestones Organization Recognition Award: for raising awareness

>of autism, humanizing autism, and for bringing national attention to the

>benefits of Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) for children with autism.

Hmmmm. Wonder exactly what they mean by " humanizing

autism. " In some situations, from some people, I can

imagine that being a positive thing. Here, I'm not

so sure. It may mean " making the poor parentes

afflicted with autistic children (i.e., parents caught

up in the tragedy of the autism epidemic) more real

and appealing to potential funding agencies and major

donors. "

Jane (too cynical, do you think?)

[Guest guest]

As founder of the Asperger Syndrome Foundation (the name of my

organization is on several of my cafepress.com items, including the

bumper sticker on my car...Autism- It's not like you think) I have

decided to found a new Foundation, the Autism Spectrum Foundation, and

as my first act as president, vice-president, founder and co-founder

is to announce the nominees for this year's AUTIE awards.

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In the category of best pro autism web pages the nominees in no

particular order:

jypsy and oddizm for the Autistic Adult Picture Project (I never said

I was humble)

Larry Foard for his " In Response to Lenny Schafer "

Phil Schwarz for his " Another Parent's Take on ABA and its " Defense " "

Connie Baker's - " Response to a Mother's Response "

's - A Critical Analysis of Kit Weintraub's Personal

Attack on Dawson

Klein - ABA Proponents Attack Autistics

Ralph - for all his body of work and that on behalf of

Dawson in Particular

A M Baggs for her work on autistics.org and especially " Past Present

and Future "

L. Tisoncik - webmaster of autistics.org for her great web site to be

shared with all those who have helped to make autistics.org what it is

today.

Moggy D's - Analysis of the Schafer Report

Alyric for her " Smoke and Mirrors " piece and " message on the

importance of consumer-driven services "

Jane Meyerding - for her full set of links to Dawson's writing and

comments pages and for being the cool head among hot heads on Aut

Advo. :-)

In the category of off line (real world) advocacy the nominees are:

Kassie Yelbis - for telling Lenny Schafer to his face what she thought

of his book and his attacks on Dawson.

Dawson - for working diligently to support the rights of

autistics through the fine use of the legal system in Canada.

t Mottron and Morton Ann Gernsbacher, et. al. for being true

human beings in spite of wearing lab coats and studying autism.

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Since the nominating committee is the equivalent of Pooh, the bear of

very little brain, the committee is accepting suggestions for the

nominee pool.

Voting will be monitored by the accounting office of Schmurge, Frigo,

and Pollifax, of San Francisco.

The statuette has yet to be designed, I'm working on it.

Camille

>

> Honoree and Guest Speaker Maurice, autism activist and noted

> author of Let Me Hear Your Voice: A Family's Triumph Over Autism, will

> accept the Milestones Organization Recognition Award: for raising

awareness

> of autism, humanizing autism, and for bringing national attention to

the

> benefits of Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) for children with autism.

>

> http://www.milestones.org/news_conferences.htm#Invitation

> Monday, June 21, 2004 Mayfield Heights, Ohio 44124

>

>

>

> ________________________________

> Ooops....Wrong Planet! Syndrome

> Autism Spectrum Resources

> www.PlanetAutism.com

> jypsy@i...

>

>

[Guest guest]

I would like to nominate A_hermit/lilghostie

For her effort to educated teachers and the general public about

autism, threw the confrences she has been doing in CA.

> As founder of the Asperger Syndrome Foundation (the name of my

> organization is on several of my cafepress.com items, including the

> bumper sticker on my car...Autism- It's not like you think) I have

> decided to found a new Foundation, the Autism Spectrum Foundation,

and

> as my first act as president, vice-president, founder and co-

founder

> is to announce the nominees for this year's AUTIE awards.

>

> ----------------------

>

> In the category of best pro autism web pages the nominees in no

> particular order:

>

> jypsy and oddizm for the Autistic Adult Picture Project (I never

said

> I was humble)

>

> Larry Foard for his " In Response to Lenny Schafer "

>

> Phil Schwarz for his " Another Parent's Take on ABA and

its " Defense " "

>

> Connie Baker's - " Response to a Mother's Response "

>

> 's - A Critical Analysis of Kit Weintraub's Personal

> Attack on Dawson

>

> Klein - ABA Proponents Attack Autistics

>

> Ralph - for all his body of work and that on behalf of

> Dawson in Particular

>

>

> A M Baggs for her work on autistics.org and especially " Past

Present

> and Future "

>

> L. Tisoncik - webmaster of autistics.org for her great web site to

be

> shared with all those who have helped to make autistics.org what

it is

> today.

>

> Moggy D's - Analysis of the Schafer Report

>

> Alyric for her " Smoke and Mirrors " piece and " message on the

> importance of consumer-driven services "

>

> Jane Meyerding - for her full set of links to Dawson's writing and

> comments pages and for being the cool head among hot heads on Aut

> Advo. :-)

>

>

> In the category of off line (real world) advocacy the nominees are:

>

>

> Kassie Yelbis - for telling Lenny Schafer to his face what she

thought

> of his book and his attacks on Dawson.

>

> Dawson - for working diligently to support the rights of

> autistics through the fine use of the legal system in Canada.

>

> t Mottron and Morton Ann Gernsbacher, et. al. for being true

> human beings in spite of wearing lab coats and studying autism.

> ----

>

> Since the nominating committee is the equivalent of Pooh, the bear

of

> very little brain, the committee is accepting suggestions for the

> nominee pool.

>

> Voting will be monitored by the accounting office of Schmurge,

Frigo,

> and Pollifax, of San Francisco.

>

> The statuette has yet to be designed, I'm working on it.

>

> Camille

>

>

>

>

> >

> > Honoree and Guest Speaker Maurice, autism activist and

noted

> > author of Let Me Hear Your Voice: A Family's Triumph Over

Autism, will

> > accept the Milestones Organization Recognition Award: for raising

> awareness

> > of autism, humanizing autism, and for bringing national

attention to

> the

> > benefits of Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) for children with

autism.

> >

> > http://www.milestones.org/news_conferences.htm#Invitation

> > Monday, June 21, 2004 Mayfield Heights, Ohio 44124

> >

> >

> >

> > ________________________________

> > Ooops....Wrong Planet! Syndrome

> > Autism Spectrum Resources

> > www.PlanetAutism.com

> > jypsy@i...

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

Camille wrote:

>Jane Meyerding - for her full set of links to Dawson's writing and

>comments pages and for being the cool head among hot heads on Aut

>Advo. :-)

My web site gratefully retires from the competition. The set

of links to Dawson's writing was supplied by jypsy, so she

gets the credit for that part of the site. And the rest of

your kind words are not web related.

Hey, Camille, maybe you should do what some of the bear

sites used to do. Each site owner would pick a " teddy

bear [or teddy bear artist, or teddy bear site] of the

month " and cite it prominently on her (or his) own site.

And you could have a links page where all the former

" autistic site of the month " links would accumulate.

Jane

[Guest guest]

Bajard wrote:

> I am tired of ABA-bashing. I don't know how ABA profiles

> itself in the US/Canada,

Hi ,

I think we're dealing with a bit of cultural difference here,

in that we don't know how ABA is practiced in Denmark, and

you don't seem to know how it's practiced in US/Canada. If

you did know, you would probably see it differently.

> but nothing is so bad, that it can't be used for something

>(Scientology excepted).

As someone else noted, that statement needs some work, but

I'll agree about the Scientology part. ;-)

> I know black-and-white thinking is part of autism, but I

> also know intelligence flowers in auties. Use it to find

> nuances in your and others' thinking.

I'd also agree that some of us are prone to black-and-

white thinking at times. It's something that everyone

needs to work on, NT or AC.

> We should be able to be overbearing with fanatics, but most

> importantly, we should be careful not to be fanatícs ourselves.

I could also agree with this statement, but have to point out

what may be a translation problem, because words are my thing.

Surely you meant " forbearing " instead of " overbearing " ? In the

sense of forbearance: hold oneself back when provoked, to be

patient. We might try to agree on defining " fanatic " also, as

some of us have experienced the damaging effects of ABA, and

are concerned that it is still going on with other kids. I

can see how some of us can be moved to activism.

> Because in doing so, we rejoin the pack mentality of NT's

> and obliterate the most precious part of ourselves: that

> we are unique and intelligent.

That we are unique and intelligent is exactly why we don't

want that beaten out of us as we're forced to conform.

Clay