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Autism Speaks is an evil organisation, a hate group wanting to do an autistic genocide. I beg for a criticism section. ZippyComb (talk) 14:08, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
In the lede there is: "The autism rights movement and neurodiversity advocates see autism as a difference rather than a disease that needs to be cured". There are some references to criticism in the "Activities" section, and a good deal of critical coverage in the "Views" section. The criticism is there. signed, Willondon (talk) 14:34, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Is this really enough though? People have made extended critiques on this matter. Many of them made. by the very people they claim to represent. I'm autistic and I am yet to meet another autistic person who supports autism speaks in anyway. Truth be told, in the views of most autistic people (including myself) less than a paragraph haphazardly thrown in to this article isn't the kind of criticism AS deserves. They've done a lot of harm. Skyethesudoer (talk) 00:22, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It's not enough. The criticisms are only briefly mentioned, and each time, it's followed by an entire paragraph (or more) of Autism Speaks's response (and the responses always misrepresent the criticism)
This article is essentially a piece of apologetics for the organization 172.59.113.209 (talk) 11:29, 2 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed AS is a hate group, consciously spreading hateful misinformation about Autism. The Autistic community is fighting to repair the damage they do, but with a Wikipedia page like this I understand that we're fighting a uphill battle. 87.212.64.74 (talk) 07:02, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I did not mean there should be no criticism, only that it should not be ghettoed away in its own section. The whole article must be written from a mainstram perspective.
I agree. As an autistic person, Autism speaks still proposes torturous ABA therapy for example which causes abourlt 30% of the children traumatized by it to commit suicide. We definitely need a promiant section listing all the critisism against AS, like for example, that to this day, they do not have an autistic board member. 2601:40B:C200:1F8:C1FD:71DE:F3E6:39B6 (talk) 04:24, 16 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
absolutely blows me away that the word "hate" does not appear in the article for this hate group --24.241.18.163 (talk) 05:04, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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In the last sentence of the last paragraph of the Research section, there should be a "to" in between "access" and "the" Rfsmaster (talk) 15:56, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The section about vaccines causing autism mentions studies disproving the claim. But all the citations in that section are to newspaper articles. We should also cite the studies themselves. 2A02:8084:C81:1580:CD6E:B303:5820:60F8 (talk) 09:40, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Autism speaks should be put as a hate group. They don't advocate for us, they try to destroy us. They also have been caught, I repeat, CAUGHT, spreading misinformation. Autism is not a disease. Saewooxyyz (talk) 09:27, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not done for now: I agree with this, but this is not proper usage of an edit request. Edit requests are supposed to be specific "change X to Y" or "add X after Y", while following all Wikipedian policies, including providing reliable sources to support any claims made. — Urro[talk][edits] ⋮ 15:03, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Autism Speaks is ableist and works with GameStop, Sesame Street, and 3 more. It is trying to cure Autism, but Autism isn’t curable at all. It REALLY needs to be abolished! 2601:1C2:4680:B170:F5E4:9F09:F7A3:FF31 (talk) 01:47, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That is beyond the power of Wikipedia. Read WP:TALK to find out what Wikipedia Talk pages are for. --Hob Gadling (talk) 11:13, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Not done for now: I agree with this, but this is not proper usage of an edit request. Edit requests are supposed to be specific "change X to Y" or "add X after Y", while following all Wikipedian policies, including providing reliable sources to support any claims made. 