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 |