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Category Archives: Changing Perceptions
Cross-Disability Campaign Featured
ASAN President Ari Ne’eman and the ASAN-led cross-disability campaign against Autism Speaks’ video “I Am Autism” were featured in an article on Disability Scoop, an online news magazine about developmental disabilities....
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Tagged Autism Speaks, protests
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Help Us Fight Back Against Autism Speaks’ Attempts to Speak For Us!
Protests Planned Against Autism Speaks: ASAN is preparing a joint letter from the disability community in response to the horrific statements in the "I am Autism" video. In addition, our activists and allies are organizing protests to confront Autism Speaks' fundraising efforts....
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Tagged Autism Speaks, hate speech, protests
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Horrific Autism Speaks “I am Autism” ad transcript
Vicious Prejudice Shown in Autism Speaks Video: We have provided the full transcript of the "I am Autism" video by Autism Speaks, which depicts Autistic people as useless burdens destroying their families and society....
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ASAN-OSU Involvement Fair Activism
Student Involvement Fair: The Ohio State chapter of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network worked a table at the student involvement fair, a community event with over 500 student and community organizations, and distributed informational handouts. ...
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Tagged college, events, protests
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Autism Society of York Agrees to Remove Billboards
Community Works Together for Removal of Billboards: Thanks to those who wrote in and called about the kidnapped children billboard campaign, ASA-York has agreed to pull the billboards. This is a sign of the importance of working together as a community to address issues like this....
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Tagged advertising, stigma
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To the Autism Society of York
Billboard Removal Requested: ASAN has contacted the Autism Society of York, Pennsylvania, expressing concern about a billboard campaign depicting Autistic children as kidnapping victims....
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Tagged advertising, stigma
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Public Service Announcement Filmed
The filming of a national public service announcement about autism jointly produced by the Dan Marino Foundation and the Autistic Self Advocacy Network was reported on WTVF-TV in Nashville, Tennessee. The PSA, entitled “No Myths,” can be seen along with other videos on our YouTube page....
Posted in ASAN in the News, Changing Perceptions, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity
Tagged acceptance, neurodiversity
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Autism in Literature and Popular Culture
ASAN’s Paula C. Durbin-Westby delivered a talk “Autism, Literature, and Popular Culture: The Curious Coincidence of Autism Metaphors Across Diverse Genres” to the Honors Program at Ashland University in Ohio. Click here to watch the talk....
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Tagged creative arts, stereotypes
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PETA Billboard Removed
Exploitative and Misleading Billboard Withdrawn: A billboard created by PETA misinformed the public about the autism spectrum by falsely implying that milk consumption was the cause of autism. Our community came together to communicate the need for a swift withdrawal of this ill-informed piece of advertising....
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Tagged advertising, disability, ignorance
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Demeaning Language Criticized
ASAN President Ari Ne’eman appeared in a Salon.com article on Sept. 18, 2008, about the use of demeaning language in the movie Tropic Thunder....
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Tagged ignorance
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