A long, sad story about the attitudes that Autism Speaks propagates

http://goo.gl/ApsByL

To Alanna’s credit she stayed strong, not conceding on one point during the ~15 minute conversation, despite his use of every sales tactic in the book ("What’s your name? Alanna? Okay, Alanna…") and eventually, the blatant use of the size of his body and the volume of his voice in an attempt to intimidate her.

Alanna also managed to keep up with his constant stream of very loud, very fast points, answering each piece of misinformation or outright untruth with solid, evidence-based responses. Of course, nothing this “autism dad” said in defense of Autism Speaks held up to any kind of scrutiny, and most of what he kept saying were obviously sound bites he’d heard somewhere and then repeated without really thinking. He said, "Okay, but what you need to understand is…" a lot. A few of his points were,