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[-] [email protected] 66 points 6 days ago

Downplaying other people's conditions by claiming that they never used to exist is ridiculous and insulting. They just weren't understood previously.

Men in the trenches during WW1 who were suffering from PTSD were accused of cowardice in their day. Maybe the idiots who say this shit would prefer if we just called autistic people "antisocial" or "eccentric".

[-] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago

Most policing of other people's behavior is for your own personal benefit, so whatever makes it most likely for the autistic person to behave in the desired way is the "right way" to call it.

Shame and being ostracized are just ways to make sure no one else falls out of line.

It'll continue until it stops working. We need to be individually brave and support each other against stuff like this, and I think all will turn out fine :)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Isn’t that the point of the cartoon?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Who downvoted this? Like 3 people did but they never comment why. Just downvote and move along not helping anybody.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago

My feed

[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

There's a good podcast I follow that covered this. Diagnosis rates in elderly residential homes are similar to children by today's standards.

More or Less: Behind the Stats: Factchecking the Trump administration’s Autism claims

Episode webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0lfglxt

Media file: http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss/proto/http/vpid/p0lfgf97.mp3

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Why are people going against autistic people?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Because the right wants to make its ignorant followers believe someone is worse than them so that they won't feel as bad when they themselves are treated like shit by their own party.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Easy target.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Different = wrong = bad

this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2025
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