It brings awareness to the community that this is a growing issue in our society. It provides resources for families to find providers for their children to get the treatment they need to make improvement. They contribute a portion fo their funds to a local organization in the area where they have their annual walk that focuses on the treatment of autism. They are the nation's largest autism science and advocacy organization, dedicated to funding research into the causes, prevention, treatments and a cure for autism; increasing awareness of autism spectrum disorders.
Autism Speaks does not help Autistic people - thus why most of us are against the organisation.
Autism Speaks refuses to listen to Autistic people, in fact they actively try to silence Autistic people who speak-up against their mistreatment of us, and they do not have any Autistic people on their board. They refuse to acknowledge Autistic adults and cater only to parents of Autistic children.
Autism Speaks uses harmful Propaganda in order to push the idea that autism is a tragedy and that Autistic children are 'missing' - they dehumanize Autistic people, which in turn makes it easier for people to treat us as less than human. Some of their propaganda includes parents openly talking about murdering their children in front of the children themselves, misrepresenting statistics to claim autism is an 'epidemic', and lying about how autism effects families.
Autism Speaks supports torture of Autistic people, including electroshock therapy and ABA, they support parents who murder their Autistic children, and they are openly prejudice towards Autistics. They support eugenics through genetic research and pre-natal screening in order to prevent Autistic people existing, they have been very clear from the start that they wish to see an end to autism.
This is all designed to create a culture of fear and feed off parents fear, which helps to increase their profits - their income rarely goes towards helping Autistic people or their families.
Autism Speaks was founded in February 2005 by Bob Wright and his wife. Please note that the autistic community consider Autism Speaks to be a hate group, they do a lot of harm to the autistic community and autistic people.
Autism Walk is promoted by Autism Speaks to increase their profits, Autism Speaks is considered to be a hate group by Autistic people - if you care about Autistic people you don't give a single penny to that organisation. If you want to walk for Autism start your own walk, make it free and ask for donations, and support an Autism charity that helps Autistic people.
Autism awareness means bringing awareness about autism and Autistic people. Autism awareness is unfortunately associated with Autism Speaks who actually act against Autistic people by spreading misinformation as a means of increasing their profits.
Information about autism in children can be found on the NHS Choices website, as well as YoungMinds. There is further information on Autism Speaks and from the website of the Autism Society.
To provide help to those with autism.
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He wears the Autism Awareness pin because he has a step-son with Autism. We need a cure for Autism, but we also need compassion and understanding for the children and families who struggle every day.
Autism Speaks, founded in 2005 by Bob and Suzanne Wright, is the world's largest Autism advocacy organization. Autism Speaks uses a light blue color scheme for most of the organizations media. The blue color scheme is also used for Autism Speaks 'Light It Up Blue' Campaign held on April 2nd of every year with cities around the world changing their lights to a blue color in honor of World Autism Awareness Day. You can find more about Autism Speaks and Light It Up Blue in the related links.
You can wear whatever you want whenever you want. It's worth pointing out that going blue for autism is a campaign of Autism Speaks, which is considered a hate group by the autism community as they do a lot of harm to autistics.
Autism awareness is simply making people aware of autism and Autistic people. Unfortunately organizations such as Autism Speaks uses autism awareness to speak negatively about autism and Autistic people to increase their profits, thus there remains a lot of ignorance about autism.
Autism Awareness is associated with the hate group Autism Speaks - they seek to increase awareness by implying that autism is a tragedy in order to increase their profits. They use blue because it is their companies brand colour, it reminds people of their organisation so they are more likely to donate to them rather than to autism organisation that support autistic people.
You wouldn't, not if you cared about Autistic people. Autism Speaks is widely considered a hate group by Autistic people. They use hate speech and propaganda about Autism to increase their profits, very little of their profits go towards helping Autistic people and their families, and instead Autism Speaks support 'curing' Autism which means preventing Autistic people being born. The organization has no Autistic people in their leadership, they refuse to listen to Autistic people who tell them that they are causing harm to the Autism community, they also support anti-vaccination movements, torture of Autistic children, and they sympathize with parents who murder their Autistic children. If you're interested in helping Autistic people a better organisation to get involved with is the Autism Self Advocacy Network - this is run by and for Autistic people and does a lot more to help Autistic people than Autism Speaks ever has. Go to their web site and Facebook page to see what opportunities they have available to work with them or to do fundraising.