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Pretty much everyone who is reading your note cares.

It also depends, not every country is the same. The EU is gay, yes. But I can live a normal life with my family, the thing affecting us most noticeably is Inflation. We are lucky though, we are not affected by mass immigration as much as the rest of the EU, which I would say is the other big thing reducing quality of life in EU countires. A lot of the laws being pushed by the EU are certainly bad.

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Non functional autism cases are rare. All the data RFK uses lumps in people you might not even think of as a little weird with non verbal people who need a full time caretaker.

Autism as it stands is very poorly defined and categorized. There are tons of symptoms and every autistic person has a unique severity for each symptom. Should someone perfectly capable of living a normal life be considered the same as someone non verbal and needs constant care? RFK thinks so. He said we'll never pay taxes or have relationships or acheive anything for society. Meanwhile I have a documented genius IQ, graduate degree, full time job, and a family. Birds of a feather flock together, and I don't know a single autistic person who takes RFKs stance on autism seriously.

From my perspective, the biggest issue in the conversation is that all of the professional material about autism is written by neurotypical people. For a disorder that often makes it difficult to determine your own internal emotional state, a bunch of people who have never felt what you feel guessing and then telling you that their guess is truth only makes it harder. The Internet is helping here with people connecting and talking about their experiences, but none of that is making it into professional diagnostic criteria or instruction for how to help people deal with their symptoms.

Most functional autistic people are very smart and capable of learning new things very quickly compared to neurotypical people. Hyper-focus is a symptom for autism just like adhd. We struggle to be taken seriously because of social skills lagging, people promote people who make them feel comfortable. This is a huge opportunity of untapped resources that is being wasted. So much talent wasted just among my social circle. I sort of lucked into a role that uses my differences wisely and allows me to contribute more than I could if I wasn't autistic. That is very rare. That is what we should really be talking about when we talk about autism.

Anyone who thinks autism is a new thing with rising rates in society should go to a #hamradio meetup. Room full of retired old dudes hyper fixated on a subject for 40 plus years with no social skills. They just weren't diagnosing those guys back then. Go hit the model train and ham radio communities with tests if you want to see a real spike in autism diagnosis. You'll normal out the age distribution curve real quick.

I've worked around and I know how to spot people who are autistic because I am one. I can promise you 90%+ of the internet and cell phone infrastructure you pass your autism theories around on is designed, built, and maintained by autistic people. If we're the disabled ones why aren't you neurotypicals the ones building that shit? Every story I hear about software devs says they are right there with the hardware infrastructure guys if not beating our rates.

Extreme non verbal cases are sad but they are far from the norm. Plenty of not autistic people are stupid as hell too.

I'm serious when I say that functional autistic people don't believe this because we beat neurotypicals at intuitive probability, math, and pattern matching. I can see plain as day his "spike in cases" is really a spike in diagnosis then move on with my life.

I honestly think some of you neurotypicals who buy this theory spend more time worried about the downsides of autism than I do as an autistic person living in it.

Don't make me start reframing and talking about disability accommodations neurotypicals need to function in life like calculators for math most autistic adults could do in their sleep.

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