From my perspective, the issue is all about self-determination. Autism Speaks uses the disease model, and some of its policies appear to favor taking that self-determination away from people.
As a kid, I would have kissed the person’s hand who could provide me with some hypothetical cure. Now, in my early 50s, I would not take one if it were offered to me.
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Emancipated Autism Blog is the Autistic self-advocacy and human rights activism blog of An Emancipated Autist, one of the 26 websites and 29 domains maintained by Mark A. Foster, Ph.D., the founder of the servant of The Emancipated Autism Project™. See the Byline page for additional information.
The Critical Realist framework for this blog is Structurization Theory™.
This blog is focuses mostly on the United Nations values of human rights and social justice, especially their applications to the social and economic development of the autistic community. Links to all of Dr. Foster’s blogs are at this location.
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