Cure for Ignorance Campaign
Made on May 2, 2005. Last edited on June 6, 2005.
I am putting up this page to help a movement to raise awareness of neurodiversity. There is a project called Cure Ignorance, which is trying to raise awareness of autistic self-advocates by "google-bombing" with links to sites. Google determines which sites to put up first based on how often they are linked to with certain keywords. Commonly linked to sites about autism appear first in a search for autism. So some people found they could get their site higher on google by linking to it from a bunch of other sites, a process called google-bombing. This project is to google-bomb for a number of autistic advocacy websites(not all of them are part of this project, some are just useful sites I or the people running this decided to add). As part of this project, I'm putting up links for autistic advocacy sites:
Getting The Truth Out - An excellent, and very long, site. Please read through all of it, even though it starts out like a typical curebie site.
Don't Mourn for Us - Jim Sinclair's excellent article for parents
Autistics.org
Aspergia
Aspergian Island Forum
Autistic Advocacy - by Frank Klein
AutAdvo - Yahoo Group run by Frank Klein
No Autistics Allowed - Michelle Dawson explores discrimination against autistics by the Autism Society of Canada
Institute for the Study of the Neurologically Typical - a parody on similar institutes regarding autism
Autism Network International
Autism National Commitee - Autcom
Children Injured by Restraints and Aversives - CIBRA
Autistic People Against Neuroleptic Abuse - APANA
Ooops, Wrong Planet Syndrome - an excellent site with the largest collection of autism links. It is not working, but we can hope
Celebrate Autism Today
Neurodiversity.com - probably second only to Ooops Wrong Planet Syndrome in the number of links
A Place For All - by Jasmine O'Neill, the author of Through the Eyes of Aliens
Self Affirmation Pledge
Autistics Need Acceptance, Not Cure - a mother ally talks about the kind of Autism Awareness she wants
Ray's Autism Page - a father ally's page
The Asperger Express
Valarie Paradiz - mother of Elijah and author of Elijah's Cup
Can Autistics be Autism Experts?

Passing for Neurotypical
Developmental Adult NeuroDiversity Association - DANDA
The Autism Assembly
The Hyperlexia Parent's Network
Not A Miracle
Autistic Pride Day - June 18th is Autistic Pride Day
Aspergian Pride
Aspies For Freedom - Mostly I like this site, but not the "this is unlike any AS/Autism site you have ever seen before". I've seen                others like it before.
AS-IF - Asperger Syndrome Information
SpectrumHaven - a cool site, with an autism-related wikipedia
University Students With Autism and Asperger Syndrome
Oddizm
Proudly Autistic by CafePress - autistic pride T-shirts, mugs, etc
Sideways Minds
Neurodiversity Now
Wikipedia, Multi Web Vista and Word Spy definitions of neurodiversity
Becoming Real
Raventones on Autism
Perspective on Autism in Adults
The Kingdom of Laurentius Rex - Larry, actually in the land of the blind, the one eyed man would be considered disabled.
Reflections by elmindreda
On Our Own Terms - An article about the emerging autistic culture
Why Disability Rights are Not Enough - an article about employment discrimination
Genius May Be an Abnormality - Temple Grandin talks about the association of autism and giftedness. However, giftedness is                   an abnormality regardless of it's association with autism, since they are just as different as developmentally delayed people.
Curing Neuro-Bigotry
Why Label?
Wikipedia on
Autistic Culture, Autism Rights Movement,
You Want to Take Away My Window
Is Asperger Syndrome/High Functioning Autism Necessarily A Disability?
The Discovery of Aspie Criteria
Gifted Visual Spatial Learners - I think in pictures, you teach in words
Autism and Computing

Ventura33's Neurodiversity Page
My Little Rainman
Autism: Current Issues 26 - by Mike Connor
Lief's Page - Lief is a person with some interesting ideas and surveys. I like his article about neanderthals, but I don't think that's                      the origin of autism.
AWEtism at CafePress
Mimestream's story - an autistic mime
Aspergers Hosting
Left Brain/Right Brain - a blog by a father of an autistic girl, link to an anti-cure entry
Autism Diva - blog by an autistic, link to an entry about MMR
Whirled Peas
I've Heard Things
For Mothers of Autistic Children - A mother's day wish
Ask An Aspie
Autism Research and Prenatal Testing - The Autistic Genocide Clock
Cheese-A-Phone - a father's stories about his autistic sons
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