We’re taking it back at !autismplace@lemmy.autism.place
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Persen@lemmy.world 3 months agoAnd now apparently autism. Why us? Autism doesn’t cause you to be useless or stupid, most of us aren’t recognised in public and a high percentage isn’t even diagnosed.
BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 3 months ago
lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
The reason is bigotry. If you really want to get into it, a big reason for the stigma against autism is the damage done by Autism Speaks.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
what did autism speaks do, or still doing?
lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
They’re behind just about every negative stigma surrounding autism. Mainly that it’s a debilitating disease that ruins the lives of everyone around them and needs to be cured, as well as that autism is caused by vaccines.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_Speaks#Views