Remember the 2007 "Ransom notes" campaign, by the NYC child study center? It looks like Autism Speaks didn't learn the lesson. They commissioned director Alfonso Cuarón (who has a child with autism) to make an awareness and fundraising video.
Many people intensely dislike the video edited to add: I find it repulsive and offensive
- Cat in a Dog's World Autism Speaks & Alfonso Cuaron: Full of Fail
- Cat in a Dog's World I Am Autism & The Embarrassment Trope
- Sullivan at LeftBrain/RightBrain Autism Speaks media campaign…I am autism
- Sullivan at LeftBrain/RightBrain The Autism Speaks Bait and Switch with "I am Autism"
- Emily at A Life Less Ordinary: What if someone did this with, say, Down's Syndrome?
- Asperger's Square 8 Responding to "I Am Autism"
- AspieWeb "I am Pissed"
- Club 166 "When Will They Listen?"
- Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Northern Virginia: "Autism Speaks Gets It Wrong Again"
I'll be updating this list as I find new links. Thanks to friends who emailed and commented -- list continues
- The Standard Review: Enemies of Autism Speaks
- Action for Autism (UK) Autism Speaks--The Sound and the Fury
- Codeman38 at LiveJournal Asperger's: Autism Speaks Reaches New Low
- Turner & Kowalski: I Am Autism Speaks
- Codeman 38 at Normal is Overrated: Autism Speaks Reaches New Low
- Alan Griswold at Autistic Aphorisms Open Letter To Geraldine Dawson
- Alan Griswold at Autistic Aphorisms Open Letter to Laurent Motton
- Autistic Self Advocacy Network, SW Ohio: Autistic Community Condemns Autism Speaks' "I Am Autism" Campaign.
- Rethinking Autism: Calling All Celebrities -- Please Stop Supporting Autism Speaks
- Autism Blogger: "Autism Speaks" again attacks autistics with neurodiversity insensitive advertisements
- Media Dis & Dat ASAN Protests New Autism Speaks Campaign, "I am Autism"
- Codeman38 at Daily Kos Autism Speaks Reaches New Low
- Cat in A Dog's World Harry Potter and the Bigoted Charity
- The New Republic Blog Autism Community Condemns Autism Speaks
Thanks for spreading the word.
This is atrocious, and totally unacceptable.
Joe