“Autism Speaks believes that its bottom line will be helped by portraying autistic people as less than human,” says Ari Ne’eman, president of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network. “This is really damaging if you’re trying to get your child included in school or if you’re an autistic person trying to find a job or get included in society more broadly.”
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3 hours ago
did they really say "we search with technology [switch to ominous echoed voice] and voodoo"
ReplyDeleteWTF.
Also, note race in the narration. If I'm not mistaken, the ominous, prophetizing narrator is a black man; and the most aggressive response to autism is from (if I'm not mistaken) a black woman. Also, it seems that all the families are white, or at least not black, so it's interesting that Afro-Americans were typecasted in such a way.
ReplyDeleteIt also seemed to deploy lots of evangelical discourse like "we are warriors." A scary fusion of evangelisism and techno-eugenisism.