A lot of the fundraising that goes on during “Autism Awareness Month” goes towards finding a “cure” for autism. This is despite the fact that the vast majority of the autistic community does not want to be “cured” and actually takes offense to the idea that NT people want to change our brains to work like theirs instead of understanding how our brains work and being compassionate.
And the worst of all, by far, of the research that’s going on is around “preventing” autism. Let’s not beat around the bush here. We’re talking about eugenics. Some of this research is around detecting what causes autism and trying to intervene before birth, and some of it is around detecting whether an unborn child will be autistic so that the parents can terminate the pregnancy.
Groups like Autism Speaks have made autism sound so horrible that some parents would rather not have a child than have an autistic child. /6
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