February 21st, 2010
Aspire are bullying a granny
http://freeasdireland.blogspot.com/
As an autistic grandmother myself I was appalled to have this brought to my attention.
Aspire are supposed to be a charitable support group for people, like me, with ASDs in Ireland.
They fail dismally. Like far too many of these organisations around the planet, their behaviour does not meet their aims. Instead of using their many grants and donations for the genuine support of the people they purport to help they seem to regard them as a gravy-train for the organisers and staff.
When one poor lady writes a private email to complain about their treatment, instead of apologising and promising to improve they send a legal team in to silence her.
Well, guess what, Aspire? Epic fail.Had you addressed her concerns the matter would have gone no further. This woman is far too discrete to repeat the whole of her email (and has excised the bits that your legal terriers complained about) but the fact that you have threatened her is now spread, via the internet, world-wide.
You have made yourselves into prize eejits.
Here is part of her blogpost with her edited email:
I thought I would share with you those portions of a specific private email that have NOT been the subject of demands for apology and retraction under threat of action for defamation. As the solicitor in question made those demands based on the opinion that private email already constituted “publication” there can be no problem with reproducing the parts he raised no objection to here:
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… Whatever we do, whatever we achieve, Asperger Syndrome is the limit of our world and our expectations…have you ever thought about how that feels? Stupid question, of course you haven’t. Why would you? You couldn’t care less as long as you are milking OUR problem, and OUR disability for what you want.
Still, I cannot help wondering how you would feel being treated as you treat us?
It’s a no-brainer, you would be appalled…
..Downside is, while it is childsplay to push me over the edge …, it will not be so easy to explain when it is done, think about that.
Because of people like you, exploiting people like me, under the guise of “supporting”, I don’t have a life anyway…and nor do those dearest to me…so what do I have to lose?
Nothing, any way I add it up.
I wish I could even find enough wriggle room to say ”I hope you can sleep at night” but frankly, you would have to have a conscience for that to be a problem, wouldn’t you?
In an ideal word you’d have a “road to Damascus” experience and cry out “Oh my God! What have I done??” but, in the real world, frankly, that is not, exactly, an option, is it?
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I think that speaks for itself.
I am genuinely terrified of these people and have been for a long time. But I am far more afraid of my own conscience.
