• No Science Behind Singer's Agenda
  Letter by a research analyst outlining Peter Singer's views regarding killing disabled people.
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• Not Dead Yet
  Singer quotes re: Cognitively Disabled People
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• Not Dead Yet News & Commentary: Peter Singer
  Not Dead Yet's blog posts about PETA activist Peter Singer, who encourages legalizing death or denial of treatment to disabled people for various reasons.
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• Teen autistic advocate uses her experience to give hope
  About an autistic teen whose parents adapted to how her mind works & was designed to develop, focusing on truly important social things like keeping her face clean rather than forcing conformity -- and who now is not only well-liked & excelling academically, but is a devoted autistic advocate getting the word out through appearances and online videos.
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• Testimonies of learning disabled abuse - The Guardian
  Description of some of the stories chronicled in the new documentary "Sticks and Stones", which covers how people with learning disabilities are victims of hate crimes, experiencing violence, harassment, or cold indifference.
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• The Autism Acceptance Project
  Promotes acceptance and empowerment of autistics & parents, by showing the positive in autism that's overlooked/buried by the melodramatic curebie hatefest that dominates the media. TAAP also seeks scientific & ethical answers to the question "what kinds of help do autistics need in order to succeed & contribute to society as autistic people?"
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• The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN)
  "Dedicated to advancing understanding, acceptance, & support for the autistic community."
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• The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network | Change.org
  Organizing site for autistic people interested in news & making a difference in the lives of fellow autistics through writing letters, signing petitions, donating time/money, and other actions.
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• The Autistics.org Autism Information Library
  Great "library" of essays by autistics (and a few by non-autistic allies/parents) exploring various topics -- what it's like in an institution, acceptance vs. cure, reasons for different autistic "behaviors" like stimming, what it's like to always hide one's autistic traits, etc.
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• The cruel toll of disability hate crime | Tom Shakespeare | The Guardian
  A disabled columnist comments on how he came to realize that hate crimes against the disabled really do exist, and about the damage it does to the victims. "I think my mental block arose because I did not want to believe that human beings could be so vile. I was wrong."
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• The Misbehaviour of Behaviourists
  Michelle Dawson's excellent essay on the ethical issues in ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) therapy, including Lovaas' original intent of normalizing feminine boys to 'prevent' them from being gay.
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• The Other Side: Janet Norman-Bain & Family
  In 2004, Janet "jypsy" Norman-Bain, an Asperger's woman with one autistic & one "aspie" teen, wrote to the Canadian government detailing her kids' development in total contradiction to popular claims about kids on the spectrum, like that they destroy families and have worthless lives unless forcibly made to seem normal at all costs.
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• The other story from a 'Pillow Angel': Been There, Done That, Preferred To Grow
  A woman with static encephalopathy writes from firsthand experience about why kids with conditions like hers shouldn't have their growth arrested or be assumed to have a low IQ because they can't speak.
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• The Politics of Pain Infliction, Punishment and Control
  "I was innocent. I didn't know about the wordsmiths, coercive persuasion, the hush-ups by parents, the reputation of certain programs of being "cults." ... Only after my child was traumatized did they admit that others had been traumatized before my child...."
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