[CW Eugenics] It's finally autistic people's turn to get a "I want an refund for my shitty kid" NYT OP-Ed.

I don’t care if my child ever pays taxes — but I do care that she may never have the opportunity to work or live independently. She did not destroy my family, but I live in constant fear for her safety. I care deeply about her quality of life, and the limited options ahead.
”Does the society we live in have a role in this? No, it's my child who is wrong.”
We have moved from viewing disability through a purely medical lens — as something broken to be fixed — to a social lens that puts the onus on society to accommodate it.
Neurotypical fascist whining about having to put up with the uppity autistics, example 99472772874.
The worst part is this isn’t some fascist hardliner anomaly view, but the opinion of the average neurotypical. I could count the number of neurotypicals I’ve met who wouldn’t put the neurodiverse “burdens” on flights to El Salvador on one hand. When Trump starts doing just that, I’ll expect nothing short of celebration from the average person, whether or not they openly do so. Sick and diseased society
So many parents view having a "normal" child as their right. "Oh but I spent so long fantasizing about this, how could it not come true?".
Ah yes, viewing disability as a problem to be fixed is very medical and rational and totally not based entirely on how your society is structured.
That last paragraph you wrote reminded of that page from Flowers for Algernon, where the father defends his son Charlie from his mother.
Matt - the father - loved his son and accepted him regardless of his disabilities.
We should all be grateful we are not divorced from love, even if just as a concept of it, as Emily May is.

the reality and pain of a subset of parents of children with autism who feel left out of much of the conversation around the condition.

If anything they are always dominating the conversation despite being in the minority of autism cases. I understand it's hard for them, but it's not all about you and you're talking over autistic adults who should be heard more.

They’re always talking over their children. Makes sense to ignore everyone who has lived experience with autism in favor of parents getting over the narcissistic wounding that came with having a kid that didn’t fit their fantasy.
- Starting to think that narcissistic parents are way more common than anyone wants to admit.
If anything they are always dominating the conversation despite being in the minority of autism cases. I understand it's hard for them, but it's not all about you and you're talking over autistic adults who should be heard more.
we had a nonverbal kid on the school bus one year and it was really cool of his parents and the school system to abuse that kid and by extension everyone else on the bus route on top of school starting too damn early in the morning. I'm not even sure if low-support adults are able to be effective advocates for the kids who have it the worst.
- Someone does need to advocate for them, I don't think their parents are qualified either. "Autism parents" seem so arrogant and self-centered

When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a recent press briefing that autistic children will “never pay taxes,” “never hold a job,”

How terrible that must be

yeah i love not being able to participate in society
- Robert Kennedy is more concerned with how much a worker can be exploited

It's Journalism's Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many ~~Trans~~ Autistic People As Possible.

Didn't take much for the "left of centrist" to side with fascist shit.

"I'm left of center, but..."
Libs continue to prove Papa Stalin right about social democracy
If Adolf Hitler were alive today, he’d call himself a progressive leftist.
- That was sorta the schtick with the national socialists right?

The NYT really loves letting the worst people have op-eds dont they

They've been known to request them.

oh yeah it's consent manufacturing time

Whenever a ghoul proposes doing the most evil thing possible the NYT will be there to publish an article about how it's good actually
Yeah I only made it through the first few paragraphs before it became clear this was antivax propaganda.
"I asked why she regressed, doctor says it's common"
"RFK Jr says..."
"I got her vaccinated"
Just right in a row.
So gross.

I live in terror of the day she outgrows cute, and I worry constantly that as she grows bigger, her world grows

What the fuck

When she isn't cute I don't want her anymore
- My general disgust towards parents who seem to think the most important thing their kids could do is have grandkids

I have no interest in defending Mr. Kennedy, whose shaky science and conspiracy theories will do nothing to benefit those with autism and their families.

And yet...

"Finally" our turn? I thought we were one of the first...

There isn’t a vat of boiling acid hot enough to drown this person in

parents of children with autism who feel left out of much of the conversation around the condition.

Oh yea, totally. The parents of autistic children are hardly ever heard from 🙄

We have moved from viewing disability through a purely medical lens — as something broken to be fixed

YOU CAN'T FIX IT!! god, why do people think if you invest enough tech points in an issue anything is possible? Just completely treat it as magic. I hate this attitude and it is so pervasive. You see people calling for conversion therapy with language like this too. Lots of disabilities are just- not fixable.

There’s a resistance to parents who wish their children were less disabled

I- I think everyone wishes your child was less disabled.

ugh, ew

i wish these people would question why the inability to hold a job and pay taxes is what makes someone considered worthless

Yet another example of how the logic of capitalism leads inexorably to fascism.

Jesus fucking Christ it’s always the Godamn parents

Someone wanna fill me in on what else the Kennedy ghoul said that must be so controversial it's not included in this article?

CW: Ablism
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Parents are encouraged not to use words like “severe,” “profound,” or even “Level 3” to describe our child’s autism

yeah, i wonder why. what a fucking nightmare this person is, i feel bad for her daughter. i like pokemon, i'm not literally a pokemon. when we say this shit has levels to it, i don't think ranking and numbering them is what anyone meant.

Maybe, just maybe, laypeople shouldn’t use the same clinical and/or medicalized language used by professionals who know what the hell they’re talking about to describe their own children.
Same energy as the parents I was talking to a few months ago saying they have a “male son.” Oh okay, I thought this was a parent-teacher conference, but apparently I’m speaking to a couple zoologists.
- saying they have a “male son.”
  makes me wonder what it would mean to have a "female son"