I'm speechless. I'll have some speech in a few minutes, probably, hang on.https://twitter.com/sbaroncohen/status/1028172006661992448 …
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I appreciate that Baron-Cohen, who's made a fine career off autistic people without doing a damn thing to help them (extreme male brain, lawl), has no intention of helping us now or in the future. But could we maybe lock him in a room with Jenny McCarthy?
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Autism is a debilitating disorder that occasional produces useful traits as a side effect. And the gulag produced some inspiring books. And ebola inspired a bunch of cool zombie movies. My suffering doesn't exist to justify Baron-Cohen's preening moralizing. He's not helping.
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My left frontal lobe is about 40% bigger than it should be, probably thanks to a mosaic mutation affecting fetal brain development, and the rest of my brain is kinda smooshed around because of it. I'm really, really, almost supernaturally good at pattern recognition.
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Which would be a cool superpower if I were capable of holding a job or going out in public. I'd rather have a cure, honestly. If that's 'eugenics', then eugenics is a good thing. Don't fucking entrench my suffering and pretend you're looking out for me.
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In college I set a personal improvement goal of learning to order pizza over the phone. Took me six months. The fear of unfamiliar stores -- record stores were a particular terror -- has faded as I've gotten older, but it's still hard to go into an unfamiliar place.
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.