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Autistic Problem #142: When someone uses autism as an excuse for treating people poorly.
Mod note: When we received this submission, we chose to interpret it as referring to autistic people with internalized ableism (defending their racism or whatever that way), or to an allistic person defending an autistic person’s prejudice by attributing it to autism.
What I hate the most about using it as an ‘excuse’ is when an non-autistic person says “Oh s/he’s autistic, s/he doesn’t...
Someone I used to hang out with did this! He had recently broken up with his boyfriend, and he sent him his NI card...