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Autistic people are not robots, aliens, or "the key to the future." Please don't dissect us, mentally or physically for that matter.
Apparently SBC literally says that we are "lacking an Empathy Circuit" in his book and continues perpetuating stereotypes of theory of mind, rather than updating his perspective with #DoubleEmpathy research.

We. Are. Not. Robots.
We don't "Lack Circuits."
We are Human Beings.
"His central argument..is..if we are to progress as a species, we must do more to encourage & benefit from their unique way of thinking."

SBC's argues we should use autistic people for society's benefit.

That non-autistics should benefit from us.
WE ARE HUMAN F*CKING BEINGS.
For the love of god, #Autism Researchers who are allies to the #ActuallyAutistic community, now is the time to speak up.

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