A horror film made by a hate group depicting Autism Spectrum Disorder as a disease that will ruin people's marriages and burden families at every turn.A horror film made by a hate group depicting Autism Spectrum Disorder as a disease that will ruin people's marriages and burden families at every turn.A horror film made by a hate group depicting Autism Spectrum Disorder as a disease that will ruin people's marriages and burden families at every turn.
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A voice-over narrates an inner thought from austim (yes, it's a character) who claims itself as a disease with countless problems on the way. You read that right: the ad says austim is a disease. Just by hearing that, anyone with a thoughtful mindset will reject such notion in a heartbeat. The voice-over is using something similar to what alcoholic/narcotics programs use with the "disease letter" where the disease talks to the reader about its ways and damages all through someone's life. A very important device to use when it comes to addicts but to people and children who deal with autism that kind of similar message where its even said autism spread faster than cancer and AIDS isn't helpful nor trustworthy at all. It's a complete misjudgement of those people, and never takes into account how autistics are very functionable in the world of arts, sports, science, music, or any form of labor force despite their difficulties. It never talks about how creative and unique they are in their faculties, it just treats the problems and awkwardness as something to be corrected, treated, prevented and if possible that a cure should be found.
Advocacy group Autism Speaks is behind this weird-looking ad and they're also the backers of "Music", a movie about autism released some years that received a towering backlash from viewers with its depiction of autism. I've never heard of the movie until recently when someone made mention of it and how poorly received it was at the time, and even today it's considered a disaster on the issue. As for the group, it's very clear they get the attention they need from concerned parents who little about autism and the critical remarks from people who know better and treat the issue in a serious manner rather than claiming it's a disease.
By the standards given by an award winning director with an impecable resume, one must wonder if this was in fact made by the director "Children of Men" or the 3rd "Harry Potter" movie (aka the best in the whole franchise). Something tells me a person with same name was behind this wreck. I'm not telling you to watch the PSA but if you take a look on poorly conceived it was and beyond the ideas spread through the narration, I'm talking about the images shot, repeated over and over showing autistic children and some parents. The exact same frame appears time and again in a loop that sometimes changes to a new image but then again it returns. The video format was terrible and ugly-looking.
Very cheap, indeed, so there is no way a master in his craft and aware of the many cinema technologies available could have directed this strange piece. Avoid it at all costs.
1/10.
We can't help being autistic, it's how our brains were programmed before we were born. Parents may struggle with it, but it's no walk in the park for us either. But we are still human beings that deserve the same ounce of respect as anyone else, except for the people who are a part of this organization. Like I said, they're evil.
Did you know
- TriviaMassively offended people on the autism spectrum when released in 2009, and has been a key reason Autism Speaks is widely disliked ever since.
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Autism: 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're 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, birthday party, or 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.
Family: And to autism I say: I am a father, a mother, a grandparent, a brother, a sister. We will spend every waking hour trying to weaken you. We don't need sleep because we will not rest until you do. Family can be much stronger than autism ever anticipated, and we will not be intimidated by you, nor will the love and strength of my community. I am a parent riding toward you, and you can push me off this horse time and time again, but I will get up, climb back on, and ride on with the message. Autism, you forget who we are. You forget who you are dealing with. You forget the spirit of mothers, and daughters, and fathers and sons. We are Qatar. We are the United Kingdom. We are the United States. We are China. We are Argentina. We are Russia. We are the Eurpoean Union. We are the United Nations. We are coming together in all climates. We call on all faiths. We search with technology and voodoo and prayer and herbs and genetic studies and a growing awareness you never anticipated. We have had challenges, but we are the best when overcoming them. We speak the only language that matters: love for our children. Our capacity to love is greater than your capacity to overwhelm. Autism is naïve. You are alone. We are a community of warriors. We have a voice. You think because some of our children cannot speak, we cannot hear them? That is autism's weakness. You think that because my child lives behind a wall, I am afraid to knock it down with my bare hands? You have not properly been introduced to this community of parents and grandparents, of siblings and friends and schoolteachers and therapists and pediatricians and scientists. Autism, if you are not scared, you should be. When you came for my child, you forgot: you came for me. Autism, are you listening?
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