(from EOHarm) Re: Autism Speaks ~ Will it ever speak for us? - counter-NDer comments interesting

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I don't see what the big problem with having a board member that is

A.S.D. . (D is not for Disease). My Asst. Dir. has Aspergers and is

better at most things on the computer then I am..as a matter of fact

he built his own. He may have have a problem in life, but don't we

all ? Unfortunately for him he's 23 and missed out on the movement

for better educational plans & a multitude of treatments and Therapies

at a young age. He is still a viable part of our small Advocacy and

Lobbyist org. and I wouldn't consider replacing him with ANYONE from

Autism Speaks. Go Speak for Burger King, 'have it your way'.

- , The Office of Advocacy for Autistic Children

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> > > Yes we do dispute claims that autism is a disease. But we do not

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> > > that autism is a disablity.

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> > ND speaks with forked tongue. To deny or to obstruct the search and

> > treatment for possible cure for the disabled, whether or not labeled a

> > " disease " , is immoral. For the blind, we should seek for them sight

> > should they so desire it, for the deaf, the ability to hear, and for

> > the autistic, developmental restoration and harmony -- nothing less.

> > To obstruct their right to restoration is to become an accomplice to

> > the injury after the fact -- no less a violation of human rights, no

> > less criminal.

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> > Lenny

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