I just read Uta #Frith's Wikipedia article, and learned at least one fact about her that I hadn't known before. Because Simon #BaronCohen is higher-profile in the media — and yes, possibly also for reasons of unconscious sexism on my part — I had always assumed that he was the leader, and ultimate master authority, of the #mindblindness school of thought. But it turns out that SHE was the advisor and mentor, and he was her student!

Maybe I've been focusing on the wrong person. Apparently instead of a Dark Lord, the #mindblindness faction has a Queen.

I also wonder whether, toward the end of her lengthy career, #Frith is finally becoming less guarded, and letting us know what she really thinks — in that ghastly interview, for example.

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UGH. Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse. After my self-diagnosis at age 67 in late 2024, I thought I'd taken the measure of the depth of prejudice against #autistics when I learned that #filicide was an issue in my new-found community. But just now I learned, from a "Because you read" list in the #Wikipedia app, that some potential #AutismMoms aren't even willing to risk the possibility of one of us being born — or to wait for it to happen. Apparently "Prenatal screening for autism" is a thing. I haven't yet read this article; I just now discovered that it existed. But skimming the first paragraphs, it appears that the concept is too much even for Simon #BaronCohen; he has apparently denounced the practice as a form of #eugenics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenatal_screening_for_autism

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