In the case of Autism Speaks, they definitely suck. Not because of their research necessarily, but because of how they paint people with ASD as some terrible bu

In the case of Autism Speaks, they definitely suck. Not because of their research necessarily, but because of how they paint people with ASD as some terrible burden on their family etc. etc. I'm not saying caring for someone who is low-functioning is easy, but the way AS paints people with ASD is certainly demeaning. In terms of the research protest: I can't speak on that too much because I don't have enough of the context, but I can say that people have similar concerns outside of autism/neurodivergent things (e.g. many people are worried companies like 23andme are using DNA samples to build a superbaby). It's less so villainising a company because they're "trying to cure autism" (which this study was explicity not doing) and more so "nobody trusts a private corporation with that data".