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And is still depressingly popular with liberals as an Autism "Charity."

Of course! Because us dumb dumbs don't know what's best for us! *condescending head pat* When rich white person in nice suit says they are speaking for the poor little dumb dumbs because we obviously can't speak for themselves, the liberal heart melts into a puddle! 🥰 /sarcasm

Also, notice how they don't say "autistic people" or even "autistic children," but "of autism."

To allistics (non-autistics) or even autistics who have too much internalized ableism, you may not understand why this is an important detail. I'm autistic and a professional writer. I choose words very carefully for their impact on people. Autism is a noun, whereas autistic is an adjective...

Autism as a noun is possible to separate from autistic people linguistically. Adjectives can only be used to describe nouns. So autistic people confirms that being autistic is something within us, as people. Autism, especially in the kind of deliberately deceptive headline writing NBC loves...

Linguistically could be separated from us. "Raising the profile of autism" doesn't centre us as people. (Autistic can also be a noun. I'm an autistic. But autism can only ever be a noun.) I pick up on these linguistic subtleties very well. Some more observations of linguistic ableism...