Interesting, on the Autism Soeaks official blog ...

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Unusually on " Autism Speaks " — a posting by an autistic woman in college:

http://blog.autismspeaks.org/2012/02/06/black-white-grey/

It's good — and has been very rare — for that group to have an autistic person

*actually* *speaking*: as you know, historically even such " Autism Soaks "

site-areas as the one titled " In Their Own Words " have usually been parents

posting _their_words, under thet site's area's logo which id a pastel portrait

of a toddler — the same pastel toddler picture that appeared even when, rarely,

" In Their Own Words " quoted an older autistic person (who, till now, ho was

almost always a teen writing about how great his/her oarents & the organization

were).

Thankfully, " Autism Speaks " is finally moving away from pastel-toddler imagery

and sentiment: the current post (in the official blog, _not_buried among

parental gush) appears to be genuine & is illustrated with a photo of the adult

author.

Maybe things are changing over there — if so, that, too, deserves our notice and

comments (at least as much as their other, worse verbal behavior has deserved

comment). Why, if " Autism Speaks " keeps improving, one day I may even find that

I no longer want to put quotation-marks around their name ...

Kate Gladstone