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This is a community for people with Autism to be themselves. All neurotypes are welcome.

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Autism Sneaks (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by disposable@lemm.ee to c/autism@lemmy.world

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I didn't want to cook for myself tonight, but I read somewhere that the place I started ordering from is a sponsor of Autism Speaks.

Before placing the order, I tried to go on the AS website to check it out but I kept getting distracted by the stream of donation alerts that popped up at the bottom of the page.

It took me an additional five or so minutes to review their partnerships because it was so overstimulating.

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[–] Nithanim@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

Well, donation/purchase popups are already a very big red flag in itself. Scam sites use them to drive FOMO. I have never heard of Autism Speaks so I don't know about this particular case.

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