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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Got to say, I don't really understand. But words ending with the -demic morpheme aren't used lightly where I'm from and still mean what they do. I assume that's what's going on in this comment.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There are bad-faith actors trying to convince people that autism is "caused" by vaccines and similar garbage. They see the growing autistic population as a "woke epidemic"

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 week ago

So you are trying to say there is a bad-failth-actor-idemic. Got it.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

Not even that necessarily, they just like to act as if a lot of autism diagnoses are made up or at least severely exaggerated.

shit like "bah you're not autistic, you're just an introvert, you just need to try harder!"
I've faced this myself from my mom's SO, he was just fucking incapable of entertaining the idea that i'm autistic before i got my diagnosis, despite working with other neurodivergent people and accepting them! It's maddening.