When RFK Jr. "investigates" autism, be aware that he is deliberately and knowingly engaging in eugenics.

He's literally looking for ways to eliminate people like me from the human race.

I'm autistic.

So when you ask "what causes you?", you're positioning me as something that needs to be investigated. Something that needs to be "cured", which is to say, eliminated. Because I think in a different pattern than some folk do.

When someone says, "X causes autism, so avoid X", they're saying, "or your kid might have (gasp) *autism* too!"

This is eugenics. It's Nazi stuff. Not an exaggeration. A "science" under the Nazis.

We are not broken. We do not need fixing. We just think differently. But we have always been around. That dude that wrote an eleven-volume handwritten guide to every herb in one county in England, or wherever it was? Telling me he wasn't one of my people? GTF.

We are and always have been productive and innovative members of society. If anything, we should be seen as an advantage to the species: diversity of thought is *better* thought. Not ours or yours better - but ours and yours are.

We aren't a threat, we're not (for the most part) needing round-the-clock specialist care - but be human, will you? If someone needs that, maybe give it to them? Because they're people?

Didn't we fight a big war about this a few years back? Something about a guy with a bad moustache who didn't like the disabled people in his society? Among his many targets?

Seems to me his central thesis was "I will decide who's people and who isn't people."

And that some of us are saying, "How about maybe not? How about all the people matter, and we try to keep ourselves alive all together?"

I cannot personally imagine how anyone decides his plan is better. Or more moral.

But I'll be over here on Team Everybody Else.

#ActuallyAutistic

@oldladyplays

they wish to remove all forms of ND, because NTs are much easier to coerce and control.

@Thebratdragon

It's possible? Not saying you're wrong. But I do lean more towards it's a blood purity thing. They don't like people who think differently. They don''t know how to make us think like them, and they don't feel safe unless everyone is thinking ilke them. Eugenicists are driven by fear. Fear of people in power not being white. Fear of majority brown nations. All kinds of other racist shit. And ableist. And queerphobic. Misogynistic. And so on.

It's about bigotry. They can't cope with seeing people they have convinced themselves are inferior outworking and surpassing them.

There has to be a sinister someone behind them, helping them out, because we all know that the white man is supreme!

It is perfectly fitted to Trump's worldview. He has that bizarre idea that somehow his uncle being a professor at MIT makes him very smart and having "great genes".

No. His grandfather's mediocrity produced DJT's father, AND somehow his intelligent son too. And DJT got none of the smart bits.

It's why I think he was drawn to Nazism in tthe first place. He believes he has better blood than us. Like a king. That he was destined to rule.

They appeal to his ego, so he swallows it whole.

@oldladyplays

It is also one of the reasons for the huge AI push, ND's are the artists, authors, creators, disruptors (not the techbros, they are just money and spite), the people that push humanity along.

NT's greatest fear, is they are the ones left behind.

@oldladyplays @Thebratdragon

I honestly feel like, if anyone is "disabled" it's people who live on fear & are incapable of feeling empathy. What an awful way to exist. And what a boring world it would be if everyone thought and acted the same. It's the sort of thing, if you're talking in biological terms, that leads to species extinction. Variety is good and necessary.

@Thebratdragon @oldladyplays They're conformists first and foremost, all about the "right" way of things and rigid hierarchies. ND fall outside the conformity because they don't understand how the ND mind works and anything they can't understand is against the structure of conformity they have.

All is zero sum, either you're with them or against them even if you have no interest in their thing and would prefer they stuck to their thing over there away from you thanks.

@nini @oldladyplays

it is one of those things, even when we do conform we ask awkward questions like 'why?'

Which annoys them even if the answer makes sense and you conform because it is sensible, the fact you asked is a 'bad thing' and a 'black mark'.

@Thebratdragon @oldladyplays You questioned authority, you wanted to know why you were doing a thing and felt "I said so" wasn't a reason. You're labelled as "trouble" thereafter for being "too smart" and that's at the core of it, you didn't go along and were seen as a threat. You weren't a rebel, you weren't trying to outsmart someone, you just wanted to know why.
@Thebratdragon @oldladyplays Can we please remove all forms of NT?
Cassandrich (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] I have a pet theory that there's really no such intrinsic thing as neurotypicality, just susceptibilities to being forced into various kinds of conformity and eases of performing it.

Hachyderm.io

@dalias @oldladyplays

That is what they are afraid of happenbing

@Thebratdragon @oldladyplays Then let's deliver what they fear 😈
@Thebratdragon @oldladyplays And I'm saying this from a standpoint where "neurotypicality" only exists in the space of neurodiversity the same way "whiteness" exists in the space of race - as a construct defined by who is deemed worthy and superior.

@dalias @oldladyplays

exactly, the definition of NT relies on how far from the 'norm' you can go before being noted as different.

For white cis het males, this is a lot further than anyone else is allowed to deviate.....

@Thebratdragon @oldladyplays
"Become ungovernable"
"No, not like that!"