Why are Autistics alienated?

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Autistics are being treated very poorly in the social media often refered as [insert bad word]. What exactly do they have against us? We are all human beings and these neurological differences are unessential for further discussion, it makes the matter worse.

Scrolling through youtube comments and all I see is commenters using the term "Autistic" in a discriminating context, often to discribe undesired (annoying, stupid, etc) inviduals.

So what exactly do they dislike about us?

Some of us do behave in very shocking ways and are unable to control their behavior. When they cannot get the support they need they can wreak havoc on communities. It is only these people that get noticed because most of us go silent and unheard and, unfortunately, we all get tarred with same brush.

i sometimes see it used in the context of someone overly obsessed with something.

There are many people treated bad in media and far more worser than autistics are.

In the media it's their job to exaggerate and sensationalise things; they care about how much attention they get rather than the long term impact upon society. It's a shame because the media holds so much power. They can alter people's opinions. I wish in the media they would give only the bare facts without judging and implying things. I wish we didn't get someone else's opinions pushed on us and told that it's correct. Unfortunately though that's not the way things work. It's short term gain over long term.

If you look up any group of people on the internet you are bound to find plenty of nasty things about 'those people', even get pissed off and then end up sort of seeking out more negativity directed at that group so it seems much more overbearing...I guess my point is over all I don't really see people with autism specifically being treated any poorer than many other specific groups on the internet there is plenty of negativity and mean spirited stuff directed at plenty of other categories of people online. Also which youtube videos....videos that pertain to autism? or just any and all videos you are commonly seeing 'autistic' used as an insult because I personally have not seen a lot of that...except specifically on videos that pertain to autism where people know they can get a rise out of people by posting trollish stuff in the comments.

Oh and stay OFF of twitter!.....maybe you don't go there but more often than not when someone starts on about 'people on the internet are saying this and that about so and so or some group of people' they have been frequenting twitter over the past few hours/days/weeks/months, seems like a cesspool of drama and negativity not sure why people go there....seems to bring people so much unhappiness and pettiness. Well not to mention its not even as fancy as facebook just a bunch of ongoing text talk that looks hard to follow and mostly consists of drama and b*tching from what I have observed.

It seems like most people are hard wired to hate the disabled consciously or unconsciously, if this was caveman times we probably would of had our skulls bashed in with a rock long ago. The fact that there is no discernible cause, you can't see autism, and it is a disorder that basically limits your connection to the rest of the world so it seems that people have a special type of hatred for us.