#Autism question for those who are #ActuallyAutistic: Do you feel that it's moral immoral, amoral, or something else entirely for celebrities who have been diagnosed as being / are suspected to be on the autism spectrum to not use their position of privilege as a way to advocate?
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I don't feel like I suffer much for it. Celebrities, however, have built an entire career dependant on how the public views them. I feel like if they were very openly autistic, the public perception of them would shift for the worse.
Yet, the press went apeshit, in a positive way, over Leo DeCaprio's portrayal of Arnie Grape in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape", and seemed almost offended when it came out that he wasn't, in fact, disabled. The press *love* a success-despite-the-odds story.
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the press loves that for about a week. A month if the celebrity's lucky
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