Hello and welcome to the corporate casket, a semi-weekly series where bad businesses go to die.

We will discuss any and everything from bad charities, terrible CEOs, and businesses that have a lot to hide.

I'm the aluminati and today we're going to be talking about the organization

next for autism.

Many, and I mean many of you have requested that I speak on this

because of the whole Mark Rober controversy surrounding this.

autism happens to be a topic that I've talked about quite a bit in previous episodes and it's one that I'm quite passionate about and I love that a lot of autistic folks tune into these episodes and learn and help point me in the right direction as well.

I want to put a disclaimer like right out here at the beginning and say that I'm obviously not the voice of the autistic community in any capacity and I don't think

any singular person is.

So if you want to know how autistic people feel about this charity, just ask.

The hashtag, hashtag ask an autistic on Twitter can be helpful for this as well.

Some people are going to feel differently and it's entirely up to you if you support next

or don't after today's episode.

Personally, while I don't believe that next is as harmful as autism speaks,

I do think they're not all that far behind.

I'll try to be as unbiased as I can going into this as always and talk about the good and the bad that

next has done and how this whole event and situation came to pass.

So with all of that being said, let's get right into it. Next for autism,

autism, formerly known as New York Collaborates for autism was founded in 2003 by

Laura Slatkin, an entrepreneur and Eileen Lainer, a former law partner.

Both of them have sons that are on the autistic spectrum.

According to their website, after consulting scientists, educators, and thought leaders, they convened a group of like-minded

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