“This incessant focus on pseudo-scientific causes of autism means autistic people are forced to listen to the suggestion that they need to be cured, as though it’s not ok to be autistic and someone should be ‘blamed’. This is wrong and dangerous. People recently told us at the National Autistic Society how they were scared and as if they should be in hiding. Parents told us they felt people were judging them. These myths are a distraction from the real, urgent issues autistic people face. In Eng

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