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The Autistic Community’s Concerns Regarding Spectrum 10K and Eugenics Are Valid

Posted on August 31, 2021December 20, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

For the most part, autistic people and our families do not want funds to be used on genetic research, and would prefer them to be used to focus on services and societal interventions that can impact the wellbeing, quality of life, and mental health of autistic people across the lifespan.

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Apologies Twitter has become near-unusable for threading. The full thread for the SNS panel on ND and the legal system is on BlueSky and I will try to re-paste over here in a few.

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Sam Crane: Adult guardianship means a court appoints another person to make decisions for another adult. Guardianship gives another adult a HUGE amount of control over another adult. Like dating, friendships, medical care. It's an incredibly restrictive system, people lose rights

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The Stanford Neurodiversity Summit 2023's Human Rights panel on Neurodiversity, Discrimination, and the Legal System starts in less than 45 minutes! We will be moderating, and will be live-tweeting/skeeting as we can. #neurodiversity

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If you are a parent/caregiver for an autistic person, we beg you to consider our Autism Checklist of Doom: Things that may upset an autistic person & cause distress, but may not be obvious to a bystander. Let's help the autistic people in our lives thrive!

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