I’m Autistic and I just finished watching the regime’s propaganda announcement about Autism. Here are my initial thoughts:

So… I watched, (and am still digesting) what the orange menace and his propaganda team had to say about Autism and Autistic People, but currently what’s most disturbing (to me) is:

1. The dehumanizing rhetoric: How the existence of Autistic People was painted as a tragedy over and over again, and how he described us as a burden on the country and a problem to be solved.

2. The way they enforced “NeuroAverage-ness” and non-Autistic people as humanity’s baseline: Enforcement of the lie that Autism is not a “normal state of being” that Autistic People are “sick” and theres a non-Autistic person hiding inside every Autistic Person, waiting to be set free.

3. The Autism Cure Narrative: How they perpetuated the (already debunked) myth that people can “become Autistic” and can potentially “be cured” of Autism, when Autism is a lifelong developmental difference (that we’re born with, and will still have when we take our last breaths).

I already know what happens when we scare parents, and tell them Autism is something they need to “fight” and shouldn’t accept about their loved ones. This hurts Autistic People (and our families and caregivers).

I’m sure more will hit me over the next few hours, but, for now… this is what’s bothering me the most as an Autistic Person.

#ActuallyAutistic #AskingAutistics: did you watch it, and how are you feeling about what was said today?

Trump, RFK and another member of the propaganda team.

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