It's a very good blog, and the people who put it together clearly are passionate about advocating for autistics and aspies. (In the process I also discovered something called The Autism Hub, which I recommend checking out.)
Their worldview is this: Autism Speaks, one of the biggest advocacy groups for autistics in the world, doesn't deserve your money or support.
The reasons vary from Autism Speaks' controversial views and awareness campaigns, to its allegedly fast and loose treatment of statistics and proof.
In the end, I decided not to remove my link to Autism Speaks from my blog.
Not like I'm getting 15,000 visitors a day, but still... even just on principle, I think I'd rather put it out there and let people judge for themselves. I don't think Autism Speaks is evil, or that they aren't trying passionately to help spectrum people.
From what I've heard, I disagree with some of the Autism Speaks approaches - certainly I disagree with anything that "pities" autistics. I think pitying anyone is a form of condescension, and to be avoided at all costs.
But I don't know enough to write them off as useless or counterproductive in the general campaign to advocate for spectrum people.
And that's why I'm going to leave their link up.
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