I am Autism Controversial Video
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Here is a Transcript of the "I am Autism" Video.

I am autism.

I’m visible in your children, but if I can help it, I am invisible to you until it’s too late.

I know where you live, and guess what? I live there too. I hover around all of you.

I know no color barrier, no religion, no morality, no currency. I speak your language fluently, and with every voice I take away, I acquire yet another language.

I work very quickly. I work faster than pediatric AIDS, cancer, and diabetes combined.

And if you are happily married, I will make sure that your marriage fails. Your money will fall into my hands, and I will bankrupt you for my own self-gain.

I don’t sleep, so I make sure you don’t either. I will make it virtually impossible for your family to easily attend a temple, a birthday party, a public park, without a struggle, without embarrassment, without pain.

You have no cure for me. Your scientists don’t have the resources, and I relish their desperation.

Your neighbors are happier to pretend that I don’t exist, of course, until it’s their child. I am autism.

I have no interest in right or wrong. I derive great pleasure out of your loneliness. I will fight to take away your hope. I will plot to rob you of your children and your dreams.

I will make sure that every day you wake up, you will cry, wondering ‘who will take care of my child after I die?’ And the truth is, I am still winning, and you are scared, and you should be.

I am autism.

You ignored me.

That was a mistake.
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DisabledWorld
Jan 27, 2010 7:14pm
Controversial video clip "I am Autism" by Alfonso Cuarón and Billy Mann. The video debuted on September 22, 2009 at Autism Speaks' Second Annual United Nations World Focus on Autism in New York. Critics say the Autism Speaks video clip "I am Autism" depicts people with autism as less than human and burdens on society. Disability advocates are coming together to condemn the "I am Autism" video by the autism advocacy organization. Since its founding, Autism Speaks has merged with three existing autism organizations and raised millions of dollars for autism research. Autism Speaks's advocacy has been based on the view of autism as a disease, a view shared by many but not all autism scientists. Autism Speaks also sponsored and distributes the controversial short video "Autism Every Day" in which it is said autism is portrayed in an unrealistic negative way.

Read about how the Autism community condemns the I am Autism Video from Autism Speaks

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