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David Gillon ([personal profile] davidgillon) wrote2019-03-11 08:54 pm
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Dammit Jim, You're an Actor, not a Autist

There's currently a twitter spat between on the one hand, William Shatner, and on the other, a load of autism self-advocates complaining over his support for Autism Speaks. Shatner is ablesplaining how they're all wrong, but doesn't seem to be aware that even though they're technically wrong in some of their points, they are points that have historically been correct until recently, such as Autism Speaks not having anyone autistic on their board, which was absolutely true from the last autistic board remember resigning in disgust in 2013, until they changed their tune over a lot of stuff and managed to get a couple of new ones. But what really turned my stomach was Shatner claiming it was all about money:

I'm just imagining Spock and Bones watching him and both thinking, "Seriously, Jim?"

(And if he was up to speed on autism he'd know the high and low functioning labels are now disparaged)

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[personal profile] kaberett 2019-03-11 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I Do Not want to wade into shit on twitter (ever), but I feel the need to link (as ever) to this post by a "low-functioning" autistic.
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[personal profile] sovay 2019-03-11 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
There's currently a twitter spat between on the one hand, William Shatner, and on the other, a load of autism self-advocates complaining over his support for Autism Speaks.

Argh what.
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[personal profile] conuly 2019-03-11 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I am all for research and studies and donations to help families of severely autistic children/adults.

Uh, A$ isn't fucking doing that, Shatner. Mostly they're invested in lining their own fucking pockets.
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[personal profile] vass 2019-03-12 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
He has no idea what he's talking about. Not an unusual situation for William Shatner.