Stop the Autism Hate Speech

What is being said about Autism is Atrocious and False.

Autistic people work, they go on dates, they play sports, they write poetry. To say autistic people do not do these things is like saying humans do not do these things. Not all humans do all of these things; neither do all autistic people.

Autistic people do not ruin families. This is horrible hate speech about autistic people that does not represent the views of autistic people. It needs to stop.

When people talk about autistic people who have co-occurring conditions such as intellectual disability, genetic conditions (e.g., fragile X, 2211q.2, etc), health conditions, trauma, and other situations, they are talking about autistic people who can have profound needs. They can be sensitive to environments that are actually harmful to everyone, but affect them first and more deeply. These sensitivities often represent co-occurring conditions such as Ehlers Danlos, mast cell activation, and more. These are complex cases where the co-occurring condition intersects with autism making daily life extremely difficult. Autistic people can go decades before co-occurring conditions are detected and identified- in large part due to discriminatory health care systems and attitudes (like what we are hearing a lot of these days). Using autistic people with co-occurring conditions to viciously malign autistic people is cruel to all autistic people, including those with co-occurring conditions.

Autistic people can struggle with being accepted for who they are. They can be misunderstood. They are often bullied by others who fail to understand what autism is and who autistic people are. Instead of saying vicious things about autistic people, start by learning about them.

Also, we already have a unifying theory of autism: https://neurosciencenews.com/new-autism-theory-17548/

You can check out the research paper here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33412500/