CWITS (@cwits)

Katie is another of my parent heroes. Her & Christian's experience, family dynamics and ultimately the politics & outside interests of Autism Speaks speaks volumes to what the parents of iatrogenically injured children who go on to receive an autism diagnosis are up against. Add in this actually autistic, autistic as identify, neurotribes bullshit, parents like us are the pariahs of the pariahs of the autism advocacy community and our children are the most marginalized of the marginalized. I really support a lot of the work that the NCSA is trying to do for our children who are severely impacted. I started to advocate and get involved as I want to fight for local community based housing & home supports, funding,safety education...I could even touch on access to adequate, appropriate and supportive medical care, but they literally denounced the pathogenesis of my girls autism diagnosis. Board members align with Offit's sham of an organization, Autism Science Foundation that literally works against my children's plight, and preventing severe autism in future generations of children. I personally would love to unite and organize, we have a lot of fighters and together our voices would be hard to silence. It's rough. I think the pHarma lobby ownership of most legislators, ad $ for media, pharma industry imbedded government agencies provoking censorship and demonization silences most parents. We have TACA for families,I appreciate Documenting Hope, Safeminds, IPAK but I dreadfully miss Generation Rescue & TMR pretty much disbanded. I feel like we are missing a collective parent driven national organization that fights for our children.