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Study: Kids born during COVID-19 pandemic don't have higher autism risk (www.upi.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

People self diagnosing as autistic on the Internet may be all fun and games, but autistic people can have a massively hard time and be incredibly hard to be around. Coping with an autistic child can just break a family.

The archetype of autistic as "extremely smart but socially awkward" has been crazy to see, and I think it diminishes the plight of people that are struggling. People self diagnosing and using "neurotypical" as an insult has been such a bad turn.