THE CORRUPTION OF THE BIG AUTISM CHARITIES HAS ALLOWED THE FOLLOWING TO HAPPEN.
How so, when this is not about an autistic person? Because sensory issues in autism prove a biological humanitarian case against dress codes and uniforms, any at all ever, by reason of their biological harm to autistic people's bodies, and because this includes the unidentified or undiagnosed of us, dress codes can only be kept away from us by being kept away from THE WHOLE OF SOCIETY. So our biological situation liberates everyone else, NTs too, from dress codes.
This alert comes form the LGBT campaign All Out. After fleeing violence in Nigeria 10 years ago, Aderonke Apata applied for asylum. But in her latest hearing last week, a Home Office barrister argued that she couldn’t be a lesbian because “Lesbians only have short hair. And they don’t have children.” Because Aderonke used to have long hair and has children she can’t possibly be a “real” lesbian.
They could decide Aderonke’s fate at any moment: we have a critical window to speak out before Aderonke is sent back to Nigeria where she could be killed or jailed. The Home Office is breaking its own rules, which say that stereotyping the lives and looks of LGBT folks is not allowed. A huge public outcry in the next few days will push Home Secretary Theresa May to stop Aderonke’s deportation.
Sign now to help stop life-threatening deportations based on idiotic stereotypes: go.allout.org/en/a/aderonke_hearing
The big autism charities, who speak only for themselves with no accountability towards us who they purport to speak for, have chosen to fit in comfortably with what politicians want to hear. It is knowingly child assault that school uniforms still exist this long into the time of autism knowledge, and child endangerment for any autism charity to choose not to speak out so. They are directly to blame for the discriminatory LIFE endangerment of Aderonke and LGBT asylum seekers. A shift by society into a humanitarian awareness against dress codes would have destroyed the concept of using an appearance based argument in an asylum case, long before this case ever happened.
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Saturday, March 7, 2015
useful consumer site suddenly annoyingly closes
It is an emotional and consumer blow that an exceptionally sensible website with a simple empowering concept is closing down. The "Fix my transport" site www.fixmytransport.com.
It's all because of site hosting and maintaining. The way that shifts as projects diversify and their time commitments shift. The web still has this infuriating flaw, that to be good democratic and user-empowering does not bed a site in to the certainty of lasting.
Using that site helped me in motivating the council to take the supported bus route 63 (Gyle to South Queensferry) away from Horsburgh, whose shoddy standards included simply cancelling buses without rep-placement if they broke down. On an hourly service, and there was a case where they visibly used another bus to deliver staff from their depot to deal with the breakdown but not put the bus actually onto the service for the folks who had been waiting an hour.
When Lothian buses took over, they reinstated the Sunday service that Horsburgh had found unviable and dropped years before - and it seems that just by running it better they have found it viable enough now to increase the evening service, on all 7 days, as well as the day frequency during the week.
It shows the positive public empowerment at stake having a facility like "fix my transport", and now it's going. Credit also Queensferry Community Council, for its local response to the issue, but they did not make it publicly findable knowledge, it was Fix My Transport which served for that. We need to bother to organise a similar sort of consumer info, for spectrum folks, through ANS. An idea that has been raised before and has not yet taken off, as it needs starter contributions, like this 63 bus item could have been one, to get it going.
Maurice Frank
It's all because of site hosting and maintaining. The way that shifts as projects diversify and their time commitments shift. The web still has this infuriating flaw, that to be good democratic and user-empowering does not bed a site in to the certainty of lasting.
Using that site helped me in motivating the council to take the supported bus route 63 (Gyle to South Queensferry) away from Horsburgh, whose shoddy standards included simply cancelling buses without rep-placement if they broke down. On an hourly service, and there was a case where they visibly used another bus to deliver staff from their depot to deal with the breakdown but not put the bus actually onto the service for the folks who had been waiting an hour.
When Lothian buses took over, they reinstated the Sunday service that Horsburgh had found unviable and dropped years before - and it seems that just by running it better they have found it viable enough now to increase the evening service, on all 7 days, as well as the day frequency during the week.
It shows the positive public empowerment at stake having a facility like "fix my transport", and now it's going. Credit also Queensferry Community Council, for its local response to the issue, but they did not make it publicly findable knowledge, it was Fix My Transport which served for that. We need to bother to organise a similar sort of consumer info, for spectrum folks, through ANS. An idea that has been raised before and has not yet taken off, as it needs starter contributions, like this 63 bus item could have been one, to get it going.
Maurice Frank
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
draw the line
Not published by the Metro. Do you find that predictable?
" Though cartoons should be free to criticise harmdoers, they should not be free to inflict personal harm themselves. Hence, unless you want to risk being sued for contributing to suicides, you should ban and refuse to publish cartoons like today's [Friday] Pearls Before Swine, gloating over the spectacle of unjust social attitudes causing loneliness. "
Je suis caring.
" Though cartoons should be free to criticise harmdoers, they should not be free to inflict personal harm themselves. Hence, unless you want to risk being sued for contributing to suicides, you should ban and refuse to publish cartoons like today's [Friday] Pearls Before Swine, gloating over the spectacle of unjust social attitudes causing loneliness. "
Je suis caring.
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Why Psychiatry Holds Enormous Power in Society Despite Losing Scientific Credibility
www.alternet.org/why-psychiatry-holds-enormous-power-society-despite-losing-scientific-credibility
by Bruce Levine."In our increasingly fear-based society, psychiatry meets our own increasing needs for coercion."
"Influential “thought leader” psychiatrists and major psychiatry institutions, by their own recent admissions, have been repeatedly wrong about illness/disorder validity, biochemical causes and drug treatments. In several cases, they have been discovered to be on the take from drug companies, yet continue to be taken seriously by the mainstream media."
Monday, December 29, 2014
Child adoption: parents that had been through this system were telling me to run away leave the country
"there is a vast amount of money given to councils to get children under 5 adopted. Before I got involved in it I wouldn't have believed that you could have a child removed when it hasn't been abused. My son was put on a protection plan before he was born"
"When I was pregnant with my son, parents that had been through this system were telling me to run away leave the country because child services would make sure my baby was taken away regardless one way or another. Of course I didn't believe them at the time."
www.assupportgrouponline.org/apps/blog/entries/show/42961801-a-s-s-g-o-christmas-message-d
- a case from England. From the mother's own siteASSGO. Aspie and OCD with an alarming and morally disturbing story of social services constantly on her back ever since a single past event. It's a reminder of Christine MacVicar's flight to protect an adult son too.
"When I was pregnant with my son, parents that had been through this system were telling me to run away leave the country because child services would make sure my baby was taken away regardless one way or another. Of course I didn't believe them at the time."
www.assupportgrouponline.org/apps/blog/entries/show/42961801-a-s-s-g-o-christmas-message-d
- a case from England. From the mother's own siteASSGO. Aspie and OCD with an alarming and morally disturbing story of social services constantly on her back ever since a single past event. It's a reminder of Christine MacVicar's flight to protect an adult son too.
Monday, December 8, 2014
Trefoil
www.facebook.com/pages/Trefoil/619203181449072
The FB page of Trefoil, a "working Asperger group", a self-employment project trying to start up, crafts and gardening. Seeking a grassroots level economy and making the point that it should be made easier to do. Arguing that such projects should be encouraged "to help take the unsustainable pressure off social services".
Link from James Smith a friend of ELAS from Teesside.
The FB page of Trefoil, a "working Asperger group", a self-employment project trying to start up, crafts and gardening. Seeking a grassroots level economy and making the point that it should be made easier to do. Arguing that such projects should be encouraged "to help take the unsustainable pressure off social services".
Link from James Smith a friend of ELAS from Teesside.
Thursday, November 27, 2014
warning needs passing on, a site that can part families
Warn as many folks as possible who use the big family tree site Ancestry, about an immoral danger there. This affects folks all over the world. I have saved all info + contacts ready to get thrown out of Ancestry for campaigning on this. Would you support an online petition on it?
Here is the danger. If you get sent an invitation for access to a tree, you can only accept it once and then it is gone. But if by accident a different user account, not your own, is signed in on the computer where you are accepting from, your acceptance will go to that different account. The acceptance of your invitation can actually go to the wrong person, there is nothing to make sure it only goes to you. You will not know this can happen before it does. Then after it has happened, that's it, the invitation is gone.
When there isn't a username to give but the member is traceable from other details, support will go in 5 days from "if you could call us on... with the username for the owner of this tree once we verify your account details we can accept this invite for you" to "Unfortunately our privacy policy does not allow us to contact that member on your behalf nor to have the invitation resent to you". This is negligence. No explanation even of why they should have such a privacy policy. Only if you are a full paying member have you any means at all to initiate a contact. This includes if you do a member search on the inviter's real name - you can only find them if they have a public tree, and then if you find them you can't message them unless you are a paying member. But many folks who are free Ancestry users without knowing it's possible for this situation to happen, may not be able to become paying members even if they want to - because only folks with bank cards can do it, and nowadays it's surprising who may not have one, I have seen a bank not want to give one to an old lady with no debt history at all. Anyone without a bank card, using Ancestry without knowing this can happen, could be left totally powerless to contact an inviter whose invitation gone to the wrong Ancestry account. Nor will the inviter will know it has happened.
This is a breach of service to the inviter too. What are you paying for, if this can happen to your invitations and you would not know it? This will leave cousins cruelly cut off from each other, by accident, after Ancestry momentarily let them know each other existed. My lost invitation was exceptionally warmly worded: "With thanks in anticipation. Warmest regards Your cousin." But for the luck that (1) I have a bank card and (2) discovered he belongs to another site too, I could now be utterly cut off from that cousin with no way to let him know this happened, with Ancestry not caring and not explaining any sensible reason for refusing to tell him.
SHARE THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW WHO DOES TREE SITES. If a paying user of Ancestry, demand safeguards before you will stay with them.
Maurice Frank
Here is the danger. If you get sent an invitation for access to a tree, you can only accept it once and then it is gone. But if by accident a different user account, not your own, is signed in on the computer where you are accepting from, your acceptance will go to that different account. The acceptance of your invitation can actually go to the wrong person, there is nothing to make sure it only goes to you. You will not know this can happen before it does. Then after it has happened, that's it, the invitation is gone.
When there isn't a username to give but the member is traceable from other details, support will go in 5 days from "if you could call us on... with the username for the owner of this tree once we verify your account details we can accept this invite for you" to "Unfortunately our privacy policy does not allow us to contact that member on your behalf nor to have the invitation resent to you". This is negligence. No explanation even of why they should have such a privacy policy. Only if you are a full paying member have you any means at all to initiate a contact. This includes if you do a member search on the inviter's real name - you can only find them if they have a public tree, and then if you find them you can't message them unless you are a paying member. But many folks who are free Ancestry users without knowing it's possible for this situation to happen, may not be able to become paying members even if they want to - because only folks with bank cards can do it, and nowadays it's surprising who may not have one, I have seen a bank not want to give one to an old lady with no debt history at all. Anyone without a bank card, using Ancestry without knowing this can happen, could be left totally powerless to contact an inviter whose invitation gone to the wrong Ancestry account. Nor will the inviter will know it has happened.
This is a breach of service to the inviter too. What are you paying for, if this can happen to your invitations and you would not know it? This will leave cousins cruelly cut off from each other, by accident, after Ancestry momentarily let them know each other existed. My lost invitation was exceptionally warmly worded: "With thanks in anticipation. Warmest regards Your cousin." But for the luck that (1) I have a bank card and (2) discovered he belongs to another site too, I could now be utterly cut off from that cousin with no way to let him know this happened, with Ancestry not caring and not explaining any sensible reason for refusing to tell him.
SHARE THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW WHO DOES TREE SITES. If a paying user of Ancestry, demand safeguards before you will stay with them.
Maurice Frank
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