Worst Austism Memes

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There is a lot of bad ones out there what is the worst you've seen

This one is pretty sh***y

We are not really human but vaccine caused mutants meaning it is ok to “recover” us by any means necessary.

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Which one?

And do you mean stereotypes or memes?

People who use 'autistic' to mean illogical.
I don't mind autistic being an insult. If someone's going to insult someone over being a pedant or over being a nerd, fine say they're autistic. I'm autistic, my stepdad's probably autistic (undiagnosed) and when he goes into shops he had no intention of shopping in to tell the shop keeper to change their sign because it's got the wrong punctuation, I tell him 'will you stop being so autistic?' That's meant as an insult/rebuke to how autistic he's acting.
But when someone is acting irrationally, that isn't autistic. Autistic behaviour is hyper rational. Irrational thinking is perhaps crazy or perhaps NT but not autistic.
Yes, I am being an aspie pedant over this.
Why not go the whole hog and say 'that wild party you had last night was really autistic because it was so loud'...
Maybe they do this because, to NTs, social logic and actual logic are the same thing? When I see this stuff criticised though it's ways that nobody I know who's autistic would act. And I know a lot of diagnosed and undiagnosed aspies, more of us than NTs.

For the first time in my life, I had lots of interaction with online gamers this year through Twitch and Discord. I had previously mostly interacted with old comic book fans on message boards, and was surprised at how different the culture is. I noticed two prominent autism memes; one was the "autistic screeching/REEEEE" meme, and the other was the "please be patient, I have autism" hat that gets photoshopped on pictures.

I think the memes are funny if they are being used in a self-conscious way, either by autistics ourselves or by well-informed non-autistics. But in some cases it can be malignant and then it stops being funny.

It's a lot like the Slav memes; if they're made by Slavs or by people who have some knowledge on Slavic cultures, they end up being really funny. If it's just a random image of a squatting, Adidas-wearing, vodka-drinking dude shouting "Suka blyat!" without any context, it's plain stupid.

Anything automatically associating autism with mental retardation or mental illness is mean.

And inaccurate.
Making fun of mental retardation/mental illness in general is mean.
I don't like when people describe autism as a mental illness. I've noticed it's usually Americans that do this.
It's either a personality type with sensory elements or a developmental disorder with sensory elements depending on your POV.

Autism used to be equated with schizophrenia, which is wrong. The two conditions are vastly different.