Ten Reasons Why Autistic People Are Being Targeted

Here’s why I believe autistic people are the first target for eradication

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To be clear, no group of disabled people should be the target of eradication. It should go without saying that it is unacceptable to advocate for the genocide of any group of people, and that includes any group in the disabled community.

I simply want to address why I believe autism was the first disability “addressed” on the docket of this regime. Without further ado, here are the reasons I believe they are obsessed with “curing” autism.

RFK Jr. has long held beliefs about autism that are outdated and full of misinformation. He is mistakenly convinced that vaccines are the cause of autism and will not be deterred from this stance. No amount of evidence to the contrary can change the mind of someone who doesn’t even believe in germ theory. If you don’t believe in germs, then vaccines are evil and unnecessary. Any theory, however misguided and based on correlation and not causation, will be what one adheres to and reinforces one’s false belief that vaccines are a scam.
Autistic people who can interact with neurotypicals are often known to have a powerful sense of justice. Sometimes this means that we have moral rigidity. It depends on the person. Some of us will follow political ideology that isn’t helpful to social causes, but for those of us who are socially minded, the right considers us a problem. Because we raise awareness of these social issues and fight for social justice, those of us who are liberal and leftist are currently the greatest threat.
Autistic people are not known for being compliant unless we are browbeaten into it. Many of us who have come to our diagnoses late in life have been unpacking a lot of the people-pleasing and fawning that we’ve done over our traumatized lives. Autistic people are pretty rigid rule followers, until we find a rule to be stupid or unethical. This creates a problem for the current regime because we’re not easily going to fall into step with everyone else.
We’re different in our thinking, processing, communication, and socialization. Neurotypicals find differences uncomfortable at best and threatening at worst, and no one more so than the immensely fearful conservatives and alt-right. They also don’t want to deal with accommodating differences because many in this regime lack empathy. They don’t think that we should be thinking differently from the hive mind.
They’re having to currently invalidate late-identified autistic people because they do not want us filing for social security and “sponging off the government”. They know that because the birth rates have gone down (because they’ve priced us out of everything), the system can’t support itself anymore. I believe the government is behind the rhetoric that autism is “trendy”. They need to de-legitimize late-diagnosed autistic people so that there are fewer people dependent on a system that is collapsing because of their own corporate greed. This is but another reason why they’re trying to dismantle Social Security.
Many in the current regime are Christian nationalists; therefore, they view autistic people as morally impure. They believe disabled people have the mark of Cain and possibly believe that autistic people are possessed. In the past, religion has associated disability with moral turpitude. Autistics are viewed as failed and broken neurotypicals who simply either don’t try hard enough to be “normal” or never can be and so shouldn’t exist. Having a disability has nothing to do with your morality or lack of willpower. According to a recent study, autistic people have been shown to uphold moral standards even when no one is around. That is also a problem for this regime and its supporters. They are getting up to things that are not morally correct, and they don’t want us speaking up about it like the truth tellers we often are.
We can predict patterns more accurately than allistic people, so we will be able to stay 10 steps ahead of them at all times. We figure out what’s going to come next, and they don’t want people to be able to figure that out, so of course, autistic people must be vilified so that we can eradicate them. Problem solved, according to the powers that be.
We often come across as weird to neurotypical people through no fault of our own. Neurotypicals find the way we move our bodies and the way we don’t move our faces. They find stimming repugnant and off-putting, and they do not like echolalia. In addition, they do not tolerate meltdowns as sensory overload but believe we are having tantrums.
Good old ableism and eugenics are reasons enough. These ideologies, if one can call them that, need to get rid of all the disabled people, which is going to be difficult because everyone, if they live long enough, becomes disabled. The numbers are higher than people think. Currently, disabled people make up 25% of the population.
Finally, they know next to nothing about the autism spectrum and believe the myths and misinformation. Enough said, really.

As you can see, this issue is multifactorial. At least I believe it is because they don’t just stand up there and say we don’t want these autistic people who are drains on their parents.

They do say that, but they also just talk about autistic people in general and autism as an epidemic caused by vaccines.

It’s a bait and switch situation so that people who are afraid of autism will turn against us and not care if we are exterminated.

It is also so that they can dehumanize us, and it distracts everyone from what actually could happen (Aktion T4 all over again).

Hopefully, I do not give them any ideas to hate us further in writing this essay.

Stay safe, autistics. Hopefully, we can ride this out, and our community will remain intact and untouched. I have to maintain hope to stay sane. Take care of yourself and take breaks from the news. At least, that is my advice that I give myself.

It’s so difficult to be so hated, and I have to give myself all of the self-love I can just to bolster and boost myself. I also lean on the community I have established online, and I take solace in their support.