Updated Sept 25, 2021 to correct an error. Herwig Czech is living. He did not die in 1991.
The inclusion of this sentence
“Some researchers say the new study has diminished their perception of the journal, which has an impact factor of 3.047. (A journal’s impact factor reflects how often its articles are cited.)…”
in this article is simply a threat to the business future of the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. If JADD doesn’t retract the article, disclose the conflicts of interest or print a study from a CBPR-informed researcher like those at aaspire.org then the JADD will be as dismissed as not a ‘credible’ source of autism information.
The phrase “some say” without attribution has been used to manufacture consensus where none exists by Fox News channel
Ideas favorable to Fox's slant are introduced by the words "some say." In journalism, those words can be fairly used to protect unnamed sources. On Fox, as Greenwald shows, they're used to inject opinion and spin under cover of reporting an existing phenomenon: "Some say Kerry looks French."
as described in the film Outfoxed.
The work of Dr Hans Asperger have been dismissed by shunning as a ‘nazi sympathizer' since 2016 simply for not including unrelated girls Herta and Elizabeth Schreiber in clinical research as female gender identity representation. Instead Dr Asperger made the tragically wrong choice of following her parents' nazi sympathies and committing them to their eventual murder by induced pneumonia at the Am Spiegelgrund T4 execution center in Vienna. Austria was illegally occupied and annexed by nazi Germany international aggression in 1938.
New information from a 2016 book "In a Different Key" by John Donvan and Caren Zucker excerpted here based on the work of the Herwig Czech was the basis of the total dismissal of Dr. Hans Asperger's research on autism.
Below are pictures of pgs. 338,340,341 and 528 that are the most relevant to the influence of "In a Different Key" on the 'cancellation'/shunning of Dr. Hans Asperger.
Herwig Czech was researching, in May 2010, what became, by 2016, accepted consensus regarding German nazi collusion and support by Dr Hans Asperger. At the same time DSM 4 was recognizing Asperger's work with a name of an autism variation with more spoken language ability (communication skill) leading to better outcomes at building independent lives in communities of peoples' choosing with the costs privatized instead of socialized. DSM 5, in May 2013, combined two diagnostic labels, autism and Asperger's Syndrome, into one label Autism Spectrum Disorder. The book by Donvan and Zucker was released after the July 2016 death of the founder of autism speaks Suzanne Wright (wife of former NBC Universal/GE CEO Robert Wright before Comcast bought out their majority stake in 2010).
The work of Dr. Tony Attwood has been dismissed as 'not credible' since 2009 for dismissing autistic adults as romantic relationship partners and in 2020 not being able to diagnose his own son and suggesting the link between autism and LGBTQ identities needs more study. All the words singling out and demonizing the work of Dr. Tony Attwood are verbose ways of simply saying "Physician heal thyself."
Autism Speaks was the third target for singling out, demonization and delegitimization that neurodiversity-informed self advocates organized the larger autistic community around to center the interests of a narrower autistic constituency. Auti$m $peak$ is a shorthand name,
referencing the large amounts of money from the Comcast buyout of the
Wright's majority ownership stake in NBC/Universal, that distorted public
discourse about how to help all autistic children and adults. The narrower constituency, with the most intense needs for LTSS in HCBS, were revealed after the concerns of the neurodiversity and self-advocacy movements were not addressed in the March 2020 CARES act covid relief law with these advocacy demands, framed as universal human rights, attributed to the neurodiversity and autistic self-advocacy movements.
Only activists, self-advocates and disabled journalists covering disability ‘succeed’ from this ‘one strike and you’re out’ weaponized outrage also called ‘cancel culture.’ The basis of the ‘cancellations’ are new information that younger people can more easily form their views around than older people can change their views that are informed with a more long term perspective from more lived experience. The pace of progressive and equitable social change of inclusion and acceptance for actually all autistics will be as slow as the pace of acceptance for individuals living with mental illness since the consumer-survivor movement catalyzed around the book On Our Own by the late Judy Chamberlin after the mental hygiene movement catalyzed around Clifford Beers was taken over by eugenics movement supporters and led to creating institutions for people with what’s now called intellectual disability.
A growing number of jobs in activism and disabled journalists covering disability will result. Movement progress toward its stated goals of acceptance for all autistics will still be hard to measure because the inequities will be concealed with ‘respect for confidentiality’ except for a public figure here and there for the self-advocacy community to advocate the interests of only a more intense needs constituency. Activism in the past has coalesced around stories of particularly harmed individuals with self-advocates organizing around the memory of Olmstead plaintiffs LC and EW and for the benefit of Zakh Price, Kayleb Moon-Robinson for the KASSA. Also the court case brought by Margaret ‘Jenny’ Hatch for supported decision making instead of guardianship. And Henry Frost for an inclusion aide at his Hillsborough County, FL neighborhood school. Jennifer Msumba and Andre McCollins to stop the Rotenberg Center shocks and Britney Spears for more guardianship reform by ending conservatorships were three more individuals organizers built activism around. Many others will be left behind with their confidentiality ‘respected’ and individuals denying they were harmed by bad public policy with the ‘speak for yourself’ and ‘nothing about us without us’ culture of consensus-building.
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