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

@autistics