list of autism rights movement activist campaigns

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In the early 2000s, activist campaigns started, mostly over the Internet.

2000 April, Autistics.org hosted an online counter-rally called "Hear Our Voices" to protest an autism rally in Washington, D.C. called "Hear Their Silence" that they disagreed with. [1] [2]
2004, a Autistic Adults Picture Project was started in response to similar projects started by parents that only include pictures of children.
2004 September, the "Our Names are Autism Too" is a campaign that protested an article titled "My Name is Autism" that presented a view autistic activists found insulting.
2004 October, the Signatures of Intolerance campaign was started over controversy surrounding ABA in Canada.
2004, the Petition to Defend the Dignity of Autistic Citizens was started to protest the use of insults to describe autism (such as "mad child disease").
2004 Aspies for Freedom started a campaign against the use of electric shock devices on autistic children at the Judge Rotenberg Center in Massachussets, USA. This is an ongoing campaign by Aspies For Freedom and will continue until the use of such devices is stopped. The campaigns involves raising public awareness of this activity at the Center, an e-mail campaign, and protests are planned.
Aspergian Pride's Cure for Ignorance Campaign seeks to raise the visibility of pride and advocacy sites in searches for autism-related terms by distributing a list of links.
2005 January the Lenny Schafer's Inquisition was started to protest Lenny Schafer's assertion that anyone who can speak, write or sign can't possibly be autistic but instead "Asperger's" and to protest his assertion that Asperger's Syndrome should be removed from the autism spectrum.
2005 February autistics.org started the "Autistics speak" campaign to protest NBC's website Autism Speaks because autistics.org believes NBC's "Autism speaks" is mostly non-autistic people claiming to speak on behalf of autistic people.