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Take Action: No More Disrespect For The Autism Community!
Tell two doctors to stop promoting a false disorder that is harming the autism community.
Goal: 20,000
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Progress: 2,121
Sponsored by: The Autism Site
The world of autism can be confusing, which is why the autism community doesn't need individuals fabricating false information. Dr. Tony Attwood and Dr. Isabelle Hénault, both doctors within the autism community, are basing their practices on a condition called Cassandra Affective Deprivation Disorder — one they claim results from the emotional stress from a relationship with an autistic individual.
While stress may be a reality for some, CADD isn't based on science or research. By promoting CADD without evidence, Attwood and Hénault demonstrate a lack of respect to the concerns of the autism community. The endorsement of CADD allows partners of autistic individuals to use their autism as a scapegoat against them.
Write to Dr. Tony Attwood and Dr. Isabelle Hénault asking them to either confirm CADD's existence through tested research or to stop promoting it once and for all.
Dear Dr. Tony Attwood and Dr. Isabelle Hénault,
As two distinguished professionals, it's irresponsible for you to promote a condition or disorder that doesn't have any base in science or research. Cassandra Affective Deprivation Disorder, you claim, is a condition in which individuals have sustained emotional trauma from a prolonged relationship with someone with autism. While it may be true that autism causes emotional stress, creating a disorder without scientific evidence is dangerous for the autism community.
CADD favors those who are affected by autism by branding them with an uncontrollable condition that is caused by someone with autism. This makes it very difficult for someone with autism to defend themselves in family law cases. They cannot help they have autism, and giving their partners a scapegoat isn't fair. Your actions are unjustly putting those with autism at a disadvantage.
CADD has never been proven or accepted by the medical community as a real disorder. Please stop promoting CADD until you have proven its validity with science and research.
As autism professionals, you should know better.
Sincerely,
Petition Signatures
May 13, 2013
Joanne George
May 13, 2013
Kimberly mason
May 11, 2013
Michelle Timmons
Very good I have a Autism child.
May 11, 2013
Tim Tebow
Tim and Sally Tebow sign this
May 9, 2013
imaan bee
May 9, 2013
Sandra Patterson
May 5, 2013
Charlotte de Marigny
May 3, 2013
Janet Neihart
Apr 30, 2013
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Apr 29, 2013
Stacy Saxe
Apr 29, 2013
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Apr 29, 2013
Shannon Cowett
Apr 28, 2013
Beverly Sossamon
Apr 28, 2013
Kevin Kenger
Apr 28, 2013
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As the wife of someone with Aspergers I find this highly irresponsible. It is not my husband's fault he is on the spectrum. And to insinuate that he has given me a disorder because of it, I find it insulting.
Apr 27, 2013
Ashley Hitchner
Apr 26, 2013
Carrie M. Gough
Psychiatry has been making up fake disorders to make money since ADD and ADHD became common household terms. Wake up and tell everyone you know about the real predators in our society!
Apr 26, 2013
Michelle DeBuyser
NO ONE is helped or healed by the dissemination of false information. It is disrespectful and harmful to those with autism as well as to the people you are *treating*. Respect your profession and the people you are caring for- everyone will be better off.
Apr 25, 2013
Barbara Policriti
Apr 25, 2013
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use your professionalism to advantage anyone on the autism spectrum, not disadvantage them!!!
Apr 23, 2013
pam gerleman
as a parent of a child with asperger's syndrome, i find it negligent on your part to continue preaching your beliefs that ASD creates a condition known to you as CADD. People have looked to you for scientifically based information, not speculation.
Apr 22, 2013
Donna Smith
Please take this seriously.
Apr 22, 2013
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I agree that there's no reason that you should promote discrimination any more in children and and adults. They already have a hard-enough time as it is without adding to it.
Apr 22, 2013
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GO AUTISM SITE, I'M A BRITISH FEMALE WITH ASPERGERS AND I TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH THESE RIDICULOUS CLAIMS! YES, LIVING WITH US CAN BE STRESSFUL BUT SO CAN LIVING WITH ANYONE, BESIDES NOBODY CHOOSES TO BE BORN A CERTAIN WAY, OR EVEN BORN AT ALL!!!
Apr 22, 2013
Bethany Sheldahl
Apr 22, 2013
Amanda Lanoue
Apr 22, 2013
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Apr 22, 2013
eric welch
Apr 21, 2013
Stacey Calvert
Apr 21, 2013
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Apr 21, 2013
melissa buck
Apr 21, 2013
Ernest Jae
Apr 20, 2013
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Apr 20, 2013
Josie Barrett
People with autism already suffer more than enough from stigmatization without healthcare professionals going out of their way to come up with new reasons to further stigmatize them.
Apr 20, 2013
kelli wagoner
Apr 20, 2013
candi wurster
You do not know what it is like to live in the world of Autism. Do not make fake disorders and promote them with out REASEARCH. You could make life very difficult for our loved ones. So STOP
Apr 20, 2013
Brigitta Yacopi
My son is on the severe end of the spectrum, and while I understand that caring for our children is very stressful, I will never blame my child for causing this some sort of disorder.
Apr 20, 2013
Liz Meeson
This is disgusting!
Apr 20, 2013
Jennifer Henry
Help us gain autism acceptance, not lose what we are trying so hard to gain!
Apr 20, 2013
Siobhan Hall
SHAME ON YOU DR ATTWOOD.....we as parents work hard for acceptance and YOU are giving others more reasons to discriminate against our children.
Apr 20, 2013
Francene Beck
Apr 20, 2013
Shelley McClanahan
Apr 20, 2013
Mykel Waggoner
Apr 20, 2013
Andrea Jarich
I have read some of Tony Attwood's work. It's shocking he'd be associated with something like this.
I am autistic and no way do I cause stress to my family to the point they have this "disorder". Stop promoting this! This "disorder" is phony!
Apr 20, 2013
limya elshazli
People needs to understand and search what Autism is and it affect kids and adults, they don't need to judge them without knowing the facts...
Apr 20, 2013
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Apr 20, 2013
deborah withers
Do you have someone you care for who is Autistic???Have you cared for someone to not know the genuine gentleness,luv and kindness???Seems not--disorder for the care-giver???Please look into your ideas,you are educated men,rite????
Apr 20, 2013
deborah withers
Why don,t you take the time you,ve taken on your study and try to help those with Autism????You are Doctors,give us some answers???What is your answer????I,m sick readin this!!!!
Apr 20, 2013
Heather Carter
Apr 20, 2013
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