Found on Autism Diva’s blog – just posting this quick for now before I have to dash out and run. God – I love what Amanda said !

http://autismdiva.blogspot.com/2007/02/more-amanda-baggs-on-cnn.html

… generally, what I tell parents is not to believe most of what they read, particularly the stuff that says we have no understanding, and no connection to our families, and no anything, and are empty shells, and stolen fairy children, or whatever. Most of that is not true.

GUPTA: Just nonsense?

BAGGS (through voice synthesizer): Yes. A lot of it is just people reading us wrong and underestimating us.

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