Autism Blog - Jake Crosby « Left Brain/Right Brain

Archive for the ‘Jake Crosby’ Category

Bob Wright snubs autistic adults, the same group who live in poverty

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

The New York Post reported on Autism Speaks founder Bob Wright having a grumpy slap at adult autistic people who were protesting the fact that Autism Speaks still has no autistic representation on its Board. Bob Wright had harsh words for protesters who tried to muck up the A-list benefit concert he put on at [...]

Posted in ASAN, Adults, Advocacy, Autism, Autism Speaks, Bob Wright, Civil Rights, Epidemiology, Jake Crosby, Parenting, Vaccines | 71 Comments »

Asperger Syndrome is not a disability, just ask Lenny Schafer

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Lenny Schafer wrote one of the most insulting comments I have seen on the Age of Autism blog in a long time. This is actually old news—the comment was made on Luly 13th. I missed the comment, but how did I miss that it was, no kidding, picked as an award winning “comment of the [...]

Posted in Age of Autism, Autism, Jake Crosby, Orgs, Schafer | 97 Comments »

Jake Crosby’s great big straw man

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

I’ve said it before—a blogger could spend his entire online time debunking blog posts from the Age of Autism. Between the pseudoscience and the bad policy promoted on that site, it is draining to just read it on a regular basis, much less respond. A few weeks ago a particularly bad post came through and [...]

Posted in ASAN, Age of Autism, Ari Ne'eman, Autism, Jake Crosby, Newsweek | 9 Comments »

Ari Ne’eman on autism

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

Ari has had a quite wonderful piece on him in Newsweek. It takes on the hard questions for Ari and he answers them with the aplomb that has come from years of hard work of learning to be an excellent networker: Ne’eman battles a strange kind of image problem: his critics accuse him of not [...]

Posted in ASAN, Advocacy, Age of Autism, Ari Ne'eman, Autism, Jake Crosby, Neurodiversity, News, Newsweek | 11 Comments »