I have no idea who you are, but will hazard to guess that you’re on the spectrum somewhere, and as such, have difficulty with changes. Yeah, it was a tough time, people lost friends (or wrote them off) because they had sided with the “other” party. I know I lost friends out of the deal, and it was painful. And yet, we move on. Changes happen, and you just have to get used to it, or continue to suffer the loss.

And the Hub isn’t lost, it’s still there, and we also have the Autism Blogs Directory, and Autismo. Those three aggregators have something for everyone, believe me. Just look them up, visit them, and find your old favorites and look for new favorites. Sometimes, change can be good, and even when it isn’t, it’s inevitable. I’m an old Aspie, so trust me when I tell you, you need to be able to adapt to changes to get along. Any time spent grieving for the past or what was, is time wasted.

All I can say is that, can any of you see beyond your own personal agendas for about five seconds, and realize that people actually read these things that weren’t you or your activism buddies? That hub, and by extension the entire movement that sprung up around it was more then any fault lines or any cyber bullies could have ever been. That place brought together information that touched lives.

So now I go on these places and see a bunch of fancy explanations for why brilliant people can’t showcase their views, if they’ve posted at all in the past years. I understand of course, as a disabled person that sometimes challenges that get in the way, but there is no explanation for almost the entire autism blogosphere that isn’t anti-vax propaganda to be just gone. All I can remember from that fight, from what I as a mere reader could decipher, was a bunch polar opposite views bouncing off each other and some person thinking it was okay to assault people over the internet. Cyber bullying is awful, but isn’t the sharing of ideas, even ones that you didn’t agree with, kind of the entire point of a place like the hub used to be?

But then again, who cares? it’s not like anyones gong to read this.

There is no reason to assume that any consideration of adding blogs that used to appear on the Autism Hub is not already taking place. (See the news/updates page; “Where’s My Blog”?) The review group is serious about their process, there are many autism blogs to consider, and there are only so many “volunteer” hours in a week.

There were 4 additions today.

can certainly understand their position as well… i was shocked at what happened, to be honest…

glad it’s back.

It takes me a minute or two to add things, so I’ll do what I can to be responsive. I work from home, so it’s not a problem to update the listings two or three times a week.

The URL isn’t ideal, I’ve been told in sometimes angry msgs, but such is life. It works and I’d consider a different domain if there was sufficient interest.

http://www.autisticplace.com/

I would polish the site, visually, if it had traffic. I nice banner or something. There’s no commercial aim, just the goal of linking and aggregating to information.

Speaking as me and me alone, I want to please ask the current Admins to consider restoring the blogs that have been removed.

I can’t access the link from my office—but I’ll be glad to see it as soon as I get back home—if you wish to add me to a directory, mine is a parent’s blog.

My comments, though, were not so much directed to the exclusion of my blog from the Hub (I write in Italian, I write also on other subjects, so it’s not out of this world to drop me off): what I find disturbing is the reduction of the number and diversity of voices of the Hub.