I know we aspies like to shit on Sheldon Cooper's characterization but that's a much more flattering depiction of autism than whatever this must be. Big yikes if this isn't just a brief snapshot of the character in motion.
Also I don't think any autistic person would accept a role in a film where Autism Speaks had any creative or editorial control. Like imagine a gay person starring in a film as a gay character where fucking Mike Pence was consulted by the screenwriter and director.
They've had a history of emphasizing the perspectives of parents while downplaying the perspectives of autistic people, especially autistic adults. They're also known to have taken a disease approach to the spectrum, their goals being to minimize symptoms (autistic behavior) by teaching aspie children how to pass as neurotypical and eventually to eradicate autism like the condition is cancer or AIDS. They've promoted the use of the puzzle-piece iconography (again, privileging the parents' perspective of solving the riddle of communicating with their neurodivergent children), including the variation of a jigsaw pattern on a ribbon (which again leans into the "autism is a disease like AIDS or cancer" approach to autism "advocacy"). It's comparable to pathologizing transness or taking a truscum approach of curing gender dysphoria while ignoring other forms of transness, or pathologizing homosexuality as a paraphilia.
The eugenics would probably come in the form of aborting fetuses suspected of being born with autism, and using CRISPR genome-editing tech (when that's further along in development) to turn autistic kids neurotypical, rather than something more obviously genocidal like shoving them into camps or sterilizing them.
Actually now that I think of it, some of them probably do want forced sterilization of autistic people. At the very least autistic people have been caught in the same net as other groups considered "mentally unfit" or failing to sufficiently conform to societal norms (groups which originally included Black and Latina women) and thus sterilized. CW for extremely racist/eugenicist shit that actually happened in California:
Theyr'e essentially an NGO grift for people who want to control autistic ppl. no autistic people on their board and spends most of their money and time on sketch shit like being anti-vax or promoting shock therapy for autistic people.
Meanwhile there's a somewhat better org, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, which instead emphasizes the voices and perspectives of autistic people and is more in line with an LGBTQ+ sort of approach to serving the needs of autistic people. They prefer the generally better rainbow iconography.
Assuming either of these men is autistic (not out of the question; a surprising amount of young lumpen online chuds call themselves "autists" as a result of their hyperfixations), they might be in a self-hating "sunken place" position where they take the propaganda of orgs like Autism Speaks as more or less correct (or think because they're "high-functioning" they're "one of the good ones") and are therefore more likely to tolerate the soft eugenics of other groups considered "deviant" for the good of society.
People used to compare me to him when I was a math nerd in undergrad and it was frustrating. Typically including the sort of people my undergrad friends (who were all also varying degrees of math nerd at the time but also counterintuitively much cooler than I was and definitely fucked) and I would interact with tutoring math.
I know we aspies like to shit on Sheldon Cooper's characterization but that's a much more flattering depiction of autism than whatever this must be. Big yikes if this isn't just a brief snapshot of the character in motion.
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Also I don't think any autistic person would accept a role in a film where Autism Speaks had any creative or editorial control. Like imagine a gay person starring in a film as a gay character where fucking Mike Pence was consulted by the screenwriter and director.
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They've had a history of emphasizing the perspectives of parents while downplaying the perspectives of autistic people, especially autistic adults. They're also known to have taken a disease approach to the spectrum, their goals being to minimize symptoms (autistic behavior) by teaching aspie children how to pass as neurotypical and eventually to eradicate autism like the condition is cancer or AIDS. They've promoted the use of the puzzle-piece iconography (again, privileging the parents' perspective of solving the riddle of communicating with their neurodivergent children), including the variation of a jigsaw pattern on a ribbon (which again leans into the "autism is a disease like AIDS or cancer" approach to autism "advocacy"). It's comparable to pathologizing transness or taking a truscum approach of curing gender dysphoria while ignoring other forms of transness, or pathologizing homosexuality as a paraphilia.
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:visible-disgust:
The worst people you know, sponsoring the other worst people you know
The puzzle piece is a symbol that neurotypicals made up to represent autistic people.
I'm not a puzzle. I'm not something that needs to be solved.
if fascism begins in the family, why would they feel the need for eugenics? Parenthood must logically be a bourgeois slaveowner type relation,
The eugenics would probably come in the form of aborting fetuses suspected of being born with autism, and using CRISPR genome-editing tech (when that's further along in development) to turn autistic kids neurotypical, rather than something more obviously genocidal like shoving them into camps or sterilizing them.
Actually now that I think of it, some of them probably do want forced sterilization of autistic people. At the very least autistic people have been caught in the same net as other groups considered "mentally unfit" or failing to sufficiently conform to societal norms (groups which originally included Black and Latina women) and thus sterilized. CW for extremely racist/eugenicist shit that actually happened in California:
http://www.autismpolicyblog.com/2017/04/buck-v-bell.html
http://www.autismpolicyblog.com/2018/04/eugenics-and-forced-sterilization.html
not OP but gonna jump in cuz i hate them
Theyr'e essentially an NGO grift for people who want to control autistic ppl. no autistic people on their board and spends most of their money and time on sketch shit like being anti-vax or promoting shock therapy for autistic people.
https://autisticadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/AutismSpeaksFlyer2020.pdf
https://autisticempath.com/whats-wrong-with-autism-speaks/
Fuck, I forgot the anti-vaxxer shit.
Meanwhile there's a somewhat better org, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, which instead emphasizes the voices and perspectives of autistic people and is more in line with an LGBTQ+ sort of approach to serving the needs of autistic people. They prefer the generally better rainbow iconography.
Milo Yannopoulos? Andy Ngo?
Assuming either of these men is autistic (not out of the question; a surprising amount of young lumpen online chuds call themselves "autists" as a result of their hyperfixations), they might be in a self-hating "sunken place" position where they take the propaganda of orgs like Autism Speaks as more or less correct (or think because they're "high-functioning" they're "one of the good ones") and are therefore more likely to tolerate the soft eugenics of other groups considered "deviant" for the good of society.
They're not autistic, it's just that the post brought up gay people who might potentially work in a movie with Pence as an advisor.
Oops. I knew Milo was gay but had no idea Ngo was.
Oh it was a big part of the grift. "Violent antifa fascists beat up poor gay Asian man".
Sheldon is definitely the lesser evil by a wide margin.
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People used to compare me to him when I was a math nerd in undergrad and it was frustrating. Typically including the sort of people my undergrad friends (who were all also varying degrees of math nerd at the time but also counterintuitively much cooler than I was and definitely fucked) and I would interact with tutoring math.
Idk plenty of people legit like Sheldon, unlike whatever the fuck this is.