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Peta actually in the 90s.

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You should be offended, and PETA has been doing this forever to make people think eating animal or animal products is bad. But their assertion also implies autism is a negative thing, which is untrue.

It also insinuates that autism is a disease even though we now know it isn't.

You are absolutely right to be offended. I have neurodivergent people in my family. I love them dearly. I wouldn't want them to be any different. My father (likely) had autism. He was a professor who got invited to lecture at the Sorbonne and wrote something like 30 books. My brother has autism. He makes far more money than I do because he's a really good coder and he's happily married. Neurodivergent people can live lives as full of success and happiness (and lack of success and unhappiness) as anyone else. They just do it differently.

Acting like autism is some sort of horror that parents should fear is disgusting.

it's ironic because arguably society "causes" autism, if society wasn't so fucked then things like autism and ADHD would just be quirks to take into account.

"oh yeah mary doesn't like speaking to strangers so we tend to hang out together so it's easier for her"

When I was growing up through the 90s in America this was a pretty normal thing too. I drank a lot of milk as a child. Like I have a lot of anxiety now but other than liking trains I don't really seem that autistic.

Considering it's from peta, there's roughly a 100% chance it's just total bullshit.

100% of autistic people who have lived past 30 have breathed air and drank water, but nobody is out here drawing the link between air and water…. The real danger.

This was what lead to the idea that vaccines caused autism, Peta was pushing this crap in the 90s.

It's peta, so probably not.

Autistic people like milk: studies show a link.

• People are scared to talk about disability, often because deep down they are scared of disability

• The problems with functioning labels

• Ableism and Autism

Well, it's a disorder, it's right in the name.

If people "liked" it, they wouldn't be taking meds to help them function.

I'm not hating, just think we should take things for what they are

Edit: sorry, thought we were talking about ADHD

It's bigoted is what it is. Bigoted against neurodivergent people. Who, as you say, are not disabled.

Dihydrogen Monoxide is proven to be toxic to humans when injected and kills thousands of people every year.

Our waterways are completely riddled with this dangerous substance.

Even if you've never heard of any of the other terrible shit they've done, you have a live example of outrageous ableism from them, and you still jump to their defence (from 2 people who basically said "fuck peta" on the internet E: not even, they basically said "peta aren't trustworthy" which is demonstrable fact)?

We (because fuck peta) are not the fucking problem here..

Because Peta engaged in ableism & Pseudoscience that later inspired the anti vaccine movement.

A) Exploiting and fuelling fear of a vulnerable group is evil.

B) They don't get the benefit of "may turn out to be false". They get to start at "fuck these bullshit lies".

The people who want us to give up all meat and even not have pets operate the biggest kill-shelter in the United States. They're constantly preachy, condescending, they lie. Fuck em.

I'm vegan for a decade now and for a while I felt like I have to support peta because they fight for the right cause. But seeing all the shit they publish, I'm not that sure anymore