Why are so many people making fun of autism/ASD?

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Two criminologist did a study on criminal human behavior. They put a car with broken windows and a camera. What they found that the longer the car out more people did something it, they also found that many people looked like average law abiding citizens, and many wore a suit and tie. The people were not connected to the outcome of the car and also saw others do the same thing therefor was ok for them to do it. It was the lack of connection and the group's acceptance of the behavior that permitted the behavior to happen or continue.
On a side note...any very famous person would tell you that has a twitter account to not check the comments, most people were way too snarky and vicious. One story I heard was a famous boxer who tracked a twitter commenter who insulted and personally confronted him about his comment. I am sure he was nothing but nice then.

I say they get a kick out of it acting like there's nothing with them pretending that they're perfect little angels, but their manners aren't so perfect, the do to feel secure and generate a sense of superiority, they think it's fun and games then, but it's no more fun when the rabbit got the gun, because they could do anything to stop the bully, ANYTHING, they emotionally torture innocent people for what they call "entertainment", I hope they get what deserve!

Minorities make good punching bags.

They're just ***holes that have nothing better to do. It's the internet so there's always going to be people like that. Don't feed them.

Why are so many people making fun of autism/ASD?

Possibly because one of the common external manifestations - stimming - does look odd.

Even as an autistic, I still find some stims of other autistics to be odd/slightly disturbing.



If we're being very honest with ourselves, we'd probably admit that stimming must look odd to 'outsiders'.

And why should someone who is not autistic learn anything about autism? I certainly wouldn't bother, if I wasn't autistic. I'd likely avoid such people.



I think it is understandable why our differences often make us easy targets.


I'm not saying the attitudes are acceptable - but they are understandable.

The Uncanny Valley effect

This effect was originally coined to describe the effect of robots on people. Autistics have been described as not fully human since 1948 when Leo Kanner said the cause of autism was parents whom "kept neatly in a refrigerator which didn’t defrost.". Time Magazine ran an article entitled "Frosted Children: Diaper Age Schizoids". Almost 70 years later we have the Autistics have no empathy, Autistics have no emotions, Autistics are psychopaths stereotypes.