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A community for respectful discussion and memes related to autism acceptance. All neurotypes are welcome.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I wanted to order a pizza tonight, but I read somewhere that the place I started ordering from is a proud sponsor of Autism Speaks. Before placing the order, I tried to go on the AS website to check but I kept getting distracted by the stream of donation alerts that popped up at the bottom of the page.

It took me about five or so minutes longer than it should have to confirm their partnerships because it was so distracting.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not OP, and I learned about AS only through this community but didn't investigate further (different continent). So I can only speculate: there's a lot of revenue to be made from therapy and pharma if you find a new niche. A fundamentally wrong popular bias, reinforced by pouring massive money into advertising helps that a lot.

To me it also smacks a lot like a part of that post-humanism psy-op. Some (influential) people really want to have "Brave New World" become reality (or "Gattaca"?) -- the "perfect" human machine; engineered and gated; divergence is a flaw. The rest goes happily with the narrative. There was someone posting their dismay about an interview with a person they previously liked, maybe already a year ago. The person in the interview was speaking of how autism should get removed from the gene pool ...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

As for the Wikipedia I read, people in BNW are selective breading for intelligence, which is at least somewhat proven, so it's still better, than AS, who just seek to discriminate against autistics, which shouldn't even be considered as a bad trait. So it's worse, than the movies. PS: Thanks for the bonus movie recommendations.