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National Autistic versus Autism Society

longman

I'm sure I've raised this before, but cannot find where. When I search NAS on google I come up with lots more links to the National Autism Society. Has anyone else noticed this?

This is Mencap at (mencap org autism*)  They have a page on autism with a few links, but nothing remotely comparable with NAS.

But consider this, if unchallenged Mencap could go around with collection boxes labelled National Autism Society and many people might think they were giving to NAS.

Has anyone tried using this service?

Is it fair to use a confusing organisatiion title like this - trades descriptions act and all that?

*on Random's advice I've deleted the link less it improve its rating

Parents

  • We, and by that I mean us AS adults, do not 'own' a website. We do not agree on how to have an identity, I've been personaly derided for suggesting that we have a logo of some sort, simply as a means to identify ourselves at need, with a nationaly publicised and recognised symbol, so we have no common identity, no common identifier, and from what I've seen, most people reading this can't see any need for one.

    I would remind you all - united we stand, divided we fall. There is no organisation that unites us, and all I keep hearing is carping criticism of the results of this. What I don't see is any willingness on the part of AS people to join together under a single banner, so that we can effectively say 'We speak for autistic people' and become the go-to resource. We can leave it to others, and maybe they will, maybe they won't, or we can ask the NAS to consider helping us to do something for ourselves. Goodness knows we've alluded to it enough.

    It's all very well picking away at minutiae like this, it uses lots of energy and words and achieves exactly nothing. I don't care WHO collects money, or what they use it for, because if one or two people benefit from it, that's the charitable purpose fulfilled. I'm certainly not convinced that the NAS is willing to take on this role of representing National Adult Autistic Society - it was started BY parents FOR parents, it's us who, in a sense, are hijacking this purpose and indeed Bob Mod's post before Christmas pointed out this very issue.

    The original intent was that we would 'move on' to other websites more suited to our chats. By staying here, we've managed to offend a lot of people with some of our discussions - people who weren't intended to be part of those discussions when these pages were conceived by the NAS. Bless Bob for saying that the NAS is reconsidering its' role, because of this very evolution of the site, when it simply wasn't foreseen or expected.

    So, are we going to get together and get an identity and a united front, or will we keep this up? It's not like we've got anywhere else to go...

    Over to you, family, what do you say?

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  • We, and by that I mean us AS adults, do not 'own' a website. We do not agree on how to have an identity, I've been personaly derided for suggesting that we have a logo of some sort, simply as a means to identify ourselves at need, with a nationaly publicised and recognised symbol, so we have no common identity, no common identifier, and from what I've seen, most people reading this can't see any need for one.

    I would remind you all - united we stand, divided we fall. There is no organisation that unites us, and all I keep hearing is carping criticism of the results of this. What I don't see is any willingness on the part of AS people to join together under a single banner, so that we can effectively say 'We speak for autistic people' and become the go-to resource. We can leave it to others, and maybe they will, maybe they won't, or we can ask the NAS to consider helping us to do something for ourselves. Goodness knows we've alluded to it enough.

    It's all very well picking away at minutiae like this, it uses lots of energy and words and achieves exactly nothing. I don't care WHO collects money, or what they use it for, because if one or two people benefit from it, that's the charitable purpose fulfilled. I'm certainly not convinced that the NAS is willing to take on this role of representing National Adult Autistic Society - it was started BY parents FOR parents, it's us who, in a sense, are hijacking this purpose and indeed Bob Mod's post before Christmas pointed out this very issue.

    The original intent was that we would 'move on' to other websites more suited to our chats. By staying here, we've managed to offend a lot of people with some of our discussions - people who weren't intended to be part of those discussions when these pages were conceived by the NAS. Bless Bob for saying that the NAS is reconsidering its' role, because of this very evolution of the site, when it simply wasn't foreseen or expected.

    So, are we going to get together and get an identity and a united front, or will we keep this up? It's not like we've got anywhere else to go...

    Over to you, family, what do you say?

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