Does feel like the subtext is that autistic people are inherently broken and need to be fixed. Though I wish I could pin down exactly what problem they have with autistic people. A perceived lack of masculine confidence? (I guarantee they don't think about autistic women at all)
I guess they just see them as easy targets.
Also, consider not publicly referring to yourself as autistic and learning to mask if you haven't already.
Right wing ideologies depend on attacking minorities to distract from the fact they do nothing to benefit regular people.
Like, you mean that people with autism might be negatively-impacted in some way? I haven't been following the whole RFK thing, but from what I have read, I don't think that he's been upset at people with autism or said that being around people with autism is an issue. He's just promoted a really bad take spawned by a claim from Andrew Wakefield that combining certain vaccines rather than taking them separately could cause autism.
Like, the risk here is that he's going to use his influential position to encourage people to not be vaccinated, and that that is going to cause a lot of deaths and harm from disease when vaccine use falls off.
The idea that vaccines cause autism and therefore we shouldn’t give vaccines inherently implies that autism is a worse scenario than any of the diseases vaccines protect against. We have a measles epidemic killing children, and people would still prefer to not vaccinate because of a fear of autism.
If people think having a dead child is better than having an autistic child, that doesn’t bode well for autistic folks.
The government is laying the groundwork for reestablishing federal mental institutions while also putting a fresh target on autism. This is manufacturing consent to expand the group of others. First they came for the immigrants, and I did not speak up... You know the poem. The outgroup is ever-growing and it starts when they put you under a microscope
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