the government is plotting to persecute autistics

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This is an old thread by my standards.

Man, the old days. When aspie48 was a supremacist and people with an agenda were breathing down my back. Well at least one of those things changed for the better!

I'm a lot less afraid of Autistics ending up as our scapegoats here in the US than "illegals" and "liberals." There are broad and obvious attempts to demonize both in politics right now, just the use of the word "illegal" is one of them. It has been a palpably negative change over the last half decade.

In contrast, as a public relations matter, the US as a whole is at least trying to understand Autism. For every negative story with Autism, you can find a counter-acting positive one - that is the process when people grapple with something they don't yet fully understand, trying on different hats, seeing what fits. But the trend and the energy is very much driving towards understanding and acceptance ... it just has a lot further to go.

Keep up with smart challenges to the negative stuff, of course.