mf started talking about autism epidemic n at that point I just couldn’t hold it in anymore
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Antivaxxers would rather have fucking polio than autism, and it fucking hurts me to hear that as a person with Autism knowing that these people think that a completely preventable, deadly disease is preferable than being anything like me. I don’t argue with them myself because I’d be constantly shouting at strangers if I pointed out every ableist thing they did or said, but thank you so much, Internet stranger for doing that for me
They’re too young to have any memory of polio, but old enough that autism seems like something sinister that suddenly appeared 15 years ago and that makes your stronk healthy sons into effeminate weirdo manchildren
Thinking autism is some kind of new emergent thing is one of the most pernicious and frustrating myths out there. For better or worse (I don’t know enough to pass judgement but the vibe I pick up is its a little more worse than better) Hans Asperger is a man who did exist and did do work studying Autism. I only know his name because it was thrown around the internet as an insult. You can’t lampoon his name to insult neurodivergent people on the internet and pretend Autism is some “new thing” when Hans Asperger died in Nineteen Fucking Eighty.
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o7 comrade
