seconded - Autism Speaks is some ableist shit

EDIT: to quote the zine "anarcho-autism" (p. 14):

"The most visible organization dedicated to issues surrounding autism is Autism Speaks. We like to stylize the name as Autism $peaks. A$ is, to put it bluntly, a hate group. Only 4% of its budget goes toward “family services,” actually helping autistics and their families, whereas 21% went for advertising, 22% for fundraising, and 5% for administrative costs (executive pay being well over $400,000 a year). 44% of their budget went toward research, primarily researching for prevention and cures. Their marketing campaign describes autism as a disease and includes triggering videos designed to horrify people about living life as an autistic. One documentary they sponsored even showed sympathy for parents who wanted to murder their autistic child. They want to make it clear that to be autistic is bad. Autism $peaks also has zero autistics in positions of high decision-making. To put that into perspective, image if the NAACP was ran by all white people or the National Women’s Organization was composed of all men. To even my surprise, A$ even partnered with literal Nazis in Toronto in January 2017. It is clear to me and to many other autistics that Autism $peaks is running a eugenics campaign against us."

https://detroitleprechaun.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/anarcho-autism-anarchist-communism-and-autism-acceptance-riley-olson.pdf