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   Cait the Proud Trans Woman (oldladyplays@wargamers.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 21:58:52 JST Cait the Proud Trans Woman

   Just for the record...

   ...have paid taxes
   ...have had jobs my whole life
   ...used to play football, baseball, and hockey
   ...wrote standup comic poetry
   ...have had several long-term relationships
   ...went to the bathroom unassisted this very morning, just like every time

   First, autism is a spectrum. To make claims about all autistic people because you've met one is a pretty big logic error.

   Second, autism isn't a disease, so it can't be an epidemic. Better surveillance of young humans has improved our detection abilities, and we catch it more readily than we used to.

   Third, we should be accommodating the needs of autistic children, not trying to eliminate them.

   The so-called search for the causes of autism is in fact an eliminationist goal: they want to find a way to wipe autistic people out. RFK Jr is like a Nazi "scientist" trying to find out what causes Jewishness: bigoted, wrong from the start, and evil.

   #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 13:13:00 JST Miakoda

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     @oldladyplays I seem to remember a whole discussion regarding a Nazi doctor determining which autistic people were "normal enough" to allow to live, and this is why we no longer call the lower support needs portion of the spectrum "Aspergers"