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People with Autism  Posted Aug 23 2008 10:30pm Rather than
listening to the legitimate criticism that Autism Speaks is
being offered from the neurodiversity community (like the fact
that people with autism are not allowed to speak at their
events, even though their name is "Autism Speaks"), AS instead
threatens to sue them .  Even for legal parodies, even for
t-shirts that say, "Autism Speaks can go away. I have autism. I
can speak for myself."  Pretty poor behavior for the org that
refers to itself as Autism's "Big Tent".  (But really, if they
don't listen to fellow parents like us who are looking for
treatments and supposedly have the same goals as them, are we
surprised that they don't listen to adults with autism who
oppose "cures"?)  And its weird because, really, the point of
all the of the stuff that we are doing to make our kids better
is so that they CAN one day advocate for the