Edited by author 09-03-2004 09:22 PM
Hi Philip,

I agree with your score for the NAS, though some days it achieves a 5. At least they really are going in the right direction, and an autisic does not have to brace herself (and preferrable not have eaten for some time) in order to read their website.

I'm very susceptible to the presence of "crumbs" myself. It's hard not to collapse in gratitude when we are not totally excluded or denigrated. I try to fight against this feeling, which is a real problem in Canada. You almost want to say "thanks for not calling me a plague" or "thanks for not writing I would be better off if I had cancer".

ASC put its crumb on its website (a patched-in list of autistic strengths). It is working on some other crumbs. Maybe I'm learning, because in view of ASC's position at the Supreme Court, and their decisions about the Workshop/White Paper from which autistics were banned (and press releases celebrating same), these crumbs make me gag.

I saw that CDSS advertisement when and where it first appeared, in the Globe and Mail. I burst into tears. That was how I found out about CDSS.