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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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Fake Mario
@ShakedDown
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@ThenonbinaryC
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@Aella_Girl
slatestarcodex.com/2015/10/12/aga "people say “autistic” in cases like this, they mean “introverted, likes math and trains, some unusual sensory sensitivities, and makes cute hand movements when they get excited.” On the other hand, I work as a psychiatrist and some of my patients are 1/
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Against Against Autism Cures
[Content warning: autism, disability, psychiatry, abuse] I. Vox: We’ve called autism a disease for decades. We were wrong. I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I know and like m…
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Fake Mario
@ShakedDown
Replying to
@ShakedDown
@ThenonbinaryC
and
@Aella_Girl
autistic. Many of these patients are nonverbal. Many of them are violent. Many of them scream all the time. Some of them seem to live their entire lives as one big effort to kill or maim themselves which is constantly being thwarted by their caretakers and doctors"
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