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Are you autistic? || If you press the button, no person with autism is ever born again (or become autistic through other means), though existing people are left unchanged. Do you press the button?

Yes | Yes
4.9%
Yes | No
22%
No | Yes
25%
No | No
48%

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No no no no no no no. Delete this. Delete this right fucking now. This is so disrespectful and ableist. As an autistic person (who is also a model and has an OF) I’m fucking ashamed at this. Autistic people don’t need to see this. I didn’t need to see this.

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Then don't look at my tweets

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I wasn’t. Several autistic people shared this and I felt compelled to say something. If that’s your response - You obviously understand how wrong this is- why not delete it?

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It's not wrong. I absolutely do not believe this is wrong. I am autistic, asking other people their opinions, and the results of which are a strong pro-autistic argument. I will use this poll in the future when I'm arguing against people who want to cure autism.

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Hm. if that was your goal - your execution resulted in insulting a lot of other autistic people. I get that youre interested in others opinions (so am I - got a whole dang degree in anth for it) but this is just not the way to go about this type of poll

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I understand they feel insulted, but my poll was straightforward and they decided to interpret in a way that led to that sensation of insult. This is unfortunate, but I'm not going to change basic, straightforward questions because some people feel hurt by them.

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Intent means nothing if the impact is negative - that’s a big ethics thing. I get you weren’t trying to - but that’s the result of what happened

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Yeah, this sort of changes my desire to be something like, "How do we educate the masses so that they don't feel offense over stuff like this?" Having such terrible responses seems like really net bad for the whole of society.

10:05 PM · Apr 13, 2020

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I think I'm hoping that's what my consistent, straightforward question approach can be. If they realize that you can actually think about these questions without it being a war, then maybe that's a first step in the direction of education. I want to be an example.

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