Support Autistic Self-Advocacy Petition: Signature List Feed http://gopetition.com/signatures/support-autistic-self-advocacy.html Online petition signatures en-us Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:11 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Gina Upson [Signature #23] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4766069?utm_medium=rss Amen to this! I have Asperger's Syndrome, and I'm surrounded by people treating me like I'm retarded or something (and my mother acting like a victim for having to "put up with" me). But the other day one social worker said what I knew already; that autistics are different, not insane, and that if I'm happy with myself I shouldn't have to change for anyone else.

]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:00:02 UTC 4766069 Jackie Dean [Signature #22] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4758936?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:43:05 UTC 4758936 Mr Doug Hanway [Signature #21] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4671026?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:47:09 UTC 4671026 Elizabeth Boresow [Signature #20] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4469144?utm_medium=rss Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:04:49 UTC 4469144 Mrs Jay Cosier [Signature #19] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4464996?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:05:59 UTC 4464996 Jon S Rice [Signature #18] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4464974?utm_medium=rss I agree with you. I have read some reports that say 90% of autistic people are retarded. Everyone I talk to about autism I explain that autism does not affect intelligence but affects the alility to communicate.

]]> Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:58:16 UTC 4464974 Mr. Asher Ben-Abraham [Signature #17] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4464575?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:47:30 UTC 4464575 Andrew Watts [Signature #16] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4463471?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:20:00 UTC 4463471 Mrs. Diane MacNaughton [Signature #15] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4463326?utm_medium=rss If we are seen as the same as everyone else and given the same respect and chances and opportunities. Just maybe the future generations of autistics and our children will stop trying to kill themselves.

]]> Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:40:51 UTC 4463326 Chaplain Melissa Weber [Signature #14] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4463144?utm_medium=rss As a person with Asperger's who is definitely NOT intellectually disabled (at the moment I own my own business and am three semesters toward an MBA), I wholeheartedly support this initiative.

]]> Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:00:37 UTC 4463144 John J. Phillips [Signature #13] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4463024?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:25:55 UTC 4463024 Rabbi Gerald Kane [Signature #12] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4462956?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:09:41 UTC 4462956 Marc Rosen [Signature #11] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4462871?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:46:25 UTC 4462871 Mr Johannes Clouser [Signature #10] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4462817?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:32:17 UTC 4462817 MS Autie Furball [Signature #9] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4462780?utm_medium=rss Many of us like/love our differences/conditions. It's time for you
"mom"s out there to start accepting us and to stop feeling sorry for
us whatever functioning level we are on. It's NOT sad! It's sad
however that you pitty us. Are you to be pittied in some way or
another? It's time for the ignorant to start to want to learn about
ASD! Let us stim: it's not in your words "inappropriate." Let us be!

-HFA Furball

]]> Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:23:28 UTC 4462780 Mrs. Lydia Glider-Shelley [Signature #8] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4462763?utm_medium=rss Stop looking at us from the outside looking in. Listen to us and get a view from the inside looking out. Until and unless we are seen as different yet equal, society will continue to try to force distasteful methods of "fixing" us down the throats of our dear, defenseless children. WITNESS the TRUTH and HEAR what we REALLY have to say, not what some group with political and financial motives has to say about us as well as our capabilities, attitudes and future.

]]> Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:18:48 UTC 4462763 Anonymous [Signature #7] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4462198?utm_medium=rss I want everyone to know, including President-Elect Obama that we autistics just want recognition for our abilities and help for our shortcomings and that while we want no special treatment, we deserve respect.

]]> Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:49:04 UTC 4462198 Mrs. Michelle Sarabia [Signature #6] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4462173?utm_medium=rss Being a part of a group that is outside the norm should not silence one's voice, whether that outsider status is because of health, ethnicity, faith, gender, etc. Until the 20th century, immigrants to the United States were considered "feebleminded" because of their poor command, or lack of English.
Now, the same concern exists for those who have physiological rather than environmental impediments to communication.

]]> Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:38:56 UTC 4462173 Cole Kingsbury [Signature #5] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4461715?utm_medium=rss Autistic people like me respectfully demand that we be given a seat in the "situation room" when it comes time to make policy and other decisions for which we are a primary stakeholder.

]]> Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:55:14 UTC 4461715 Ms Martha Dorman [Signature #4] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4461477?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:47:40 UTC 4461477 Ms Kassiane Sibley [Signature #3] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4461183?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:45:33 UTC 4461183 ms Savannah Nicole Logsdon [Signature #2] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4461163?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:38:00 UTC 4461163 Dr. Mark A. Foster [Signature #1] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/4461103?utm_medium=rss Nothing about us without us.

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