ASAN paper 'coordinates' memes/themes with R-WA Rep. McMorris-Rodgers #SOTU response

Update Aug 19, 2018 ASAN physical address added.


  ASAN (Autistic Self-Advocacy Network) shows their leaderships' (as of 2014 and probably continuing in 2017) economic 'world view'/political philosophy as well as crosses the partisan line in the timing of the Jan 30, 2014 release of the "Welcome to the Autistic Community" paper to neoliberal Republican-light, deniably enough because of not saying 'vote for or against a candidate or bill,' after they worked



 with Rep Cathy McMorris-Rodgers (R-WA) on trying to pass the Keeping All Students Safe Act (HR 4247) in Congress that died in Dec 2010.  The paper turned the word 'hopeful,' also used by McMorris-Rodgers as a theme/meme in her Jan. 28, 2014 #SOTU Republican response,  into an acronym to divert as many autistics as possible into an 'autistic community' of crowdsourced supports with costs shifted away from the public sector and advocacy directed away from demanding an expanded educational and social safety net of publicly-funded LTSS that are inadequately funded in the first place.

 The #SOTU response 

So tonight I’d like to share a more hopeful Republican vision, one that empowers you, not the government. It’s one that champions free markets and trusts people to make their own decisions, not a government that decides for you. It helps working families rise above the limits of poverty and protects our most vulnerable,


used the same rhetoric as 'moderate' Republican outreach to the disability community with only enough money to keep people with intense needs, some of whom were formerly known as 'low functioning' autistics, included in communities of their own choosing not RTC institutions.


  The "Welcome to The Autistic Community" paper sought to create an 'autistic culture' where it's only 'acceptable,' in public discourse about autism spectrum disorder, to generalize only good possibilities, not bad ones as well as ignoring who pays the costs in money and time that an autistic cannot pay, as part of a "hopeful" acronym-based future


Your full participation and pro-active approach toward your own life path can ensure a promising, H.O.P.E.F.U.L future!


Be Honest.  [underline added]


Observe Yourself in Your Environment.


Be Pro-active. [underline added]


Educate Yourself and Others


Focus your energy on your strengths and talents.


Utilize Available Resources.


Live!
 
[from pg 40-43 of "Welcome to The Autistic Community" paper]



 for all autistics in the paper released two days after the #SOTU Republican response, in a Jan 30, 2014 email
blast,


From: Autistic Self Advocacy Network <info@autisticadvocacy.org>
Subject: Introducing "Welcome To The Autistic Community"!
Date: January 30, 2014 11:01:01 AM EST


The Autistic Self Advocacy Network is proud to announce Welcome to the Autistic Community, educational books which were co-written by ASAN's communications team and the Autism NOW center and illustrated by Anabelle Listic.

Welcome to the Autistic Community introduces newly-diagnosed Autistic people to the community and answers common questions they might have, covering topics such as legal rights and identity.

Welcome to the Autistic Community is currently available in English. It can be found on the ASAN website in two versions, “Adolescent,” written at a sixth-grade reading level, and “Adult”, written in standard simple English.

Read Welcome to the Autistic Community!


Donate to ASAN »   Become an ASAN member »
Autistic Self Advocacy Network: PO Box 66122 | Washington, DC 20035
 







[as of 2017 ASAN moved its physical office space from 2013 H St, NW 7th floor to 1010 Vermont Ave, NW suite 618]

 

 Specific language


There are also federal and state entities designed to help autistic adults, such as your state's developmental disabilities council. You can find your state's council here: http://www.nacdd.org/about-nacdd/councils-on- developmental-disabilities.aspx. Some state councils may be able to assist in extreme situations; however, councils are not expected to provide individualized services to people.
There are more services for Autistic adults than ever before. However, with our advocacy efforts, more and better services can exist in the future.


Your full participation and pro-active approach toward your own life path can ensure a promising, H.O.P.E.F.U.L future!


from the "Welcome to The Autistic Community" paper that subtly redirects people from publicly-funded LTSS in HCBS settings toward an identity politics-based community (autistic) without systemic public funds leading to savage inequalities in long-term individual life outcomes.   The savage inequalities have a basis in individual skill variation at replacing public services with 'vibrant social cooperation'  


In the last decade, social media has been important for connecting the Autistic community. Many organizations and interest groups have appeared online. We recommend that if you use social media, you should connect with people online. It also has the benefit of allowing you to be basically anywhere in the world with an Internet connection, and still be in contact with the community.


through individual communication in public and private (user to user messaging) functions between accountholders on social media platforms. 


This tweet, 



No. Not everything is possible. Not for everybody, everywhere, all the time. Stop pressuring people to have to be able to do everything!

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with nuance unfortunately stripped out by the 140 character cap,  sums up the flaws in the ASAN paper and advocacy strategy of diverting as many people out of the publicly-funded social safety net, delivered in HCBS settings, toward 'autistic community building' as a 'demand reduction' ideological inversion of failed Reagan-Republican 'supply side economics.' 


 In the absence of a passed and signed HR4247, by Dec 2010, autistic 'self' (more accurately many 'selves') advocacy for two people within the next 6 years, Zakh Price and Kayleb Moon-Robinson, successfully saved both from the school to prison pipeline.  That autistic community-led advocacy is commendable but in no way a substitute for the systemic change HR 4247 and adequate funding for regulatory enforcement would have made.  There are probably many other autistic students who were not so fortunate to attract nationally-based social media and IRL support leading to the dropping of wrongfully filed legal charges and are suffering in institutions of juvenile correctional environments.