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MNHQ please can you clamp down on anti autism threads?

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Notreallyarsed · 21/09/2017 16:07

For weeks now autism and autistic people have been targeted by thread after thread using inflammatory language, negative stereotypes and connotations and just general ignorance. Why is this allowed to happen? Autism is a recognised disability and as such is covered by discrimination laws. Why is it that people, despite education being widely available and offered on here by parents, are allowed to dismiss/deny/minimise autism in a way that would never be considered acceptable for any other disability? @MNHQ

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LivininaBox · 21/09/2017 16:09

Can't say i've noticed this. Can you give some examples?

Notreallyarsed · 21/09/2017 16:11

They’re all over AIBU and have been for weeks. I can’t do specifics or it will end up being deleted for a TAAT but there are two on AIBU right now.

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Notreallyarsed · 21/09/2017 16:12

And there’s one in Newbie’s Corner

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ParsnipLeekAndLemonSoup · 21/09/2017 16:12

Where?!

Anecdoche · 21/09/2017 16:16

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Notreallyarsed · 21/09/2017 16:18

@Anecdoche that’s exactly the kind of attitudes I’m talking about. Sadly they’re rampant on here, scathing, disdainful, dismissive and sometimes straight up nasty. 4 out of 5 in our house are autistic and if these people only knew the impact that perpetuating such damaging and nasty myths about autism did I wonder if they’d continue.

Actually I don’t, I’m sure they would.

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SerfTerf · 21/09/2017 16:21

Yes please.

biscuitmillionaire · 21/09/2017 16:21

Can you give us a recent quote from a post so we know what you're talking about. My current active list doesn't show any threads related to autism.

Notreallyarsed · 21/09/2017 16:23
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SerfTerf · 21/09/2017 16:23

The poster who was earnestly explaining to me the other day that it's difficult to differentiate between "bastards" and aspies "because you can't just decide to diagnose someone yourself" (😳🙄😡) is still merrily posting away I noticed.

Notreallyarsed · 21/09/2017 16:24

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3039273-about-those-on-the-autistic-spectrum-in-mainstream-schools

OP is great in this one but there’s a very nasty poster who is apparently a HT saying awful things unchallenged by MNHQ.

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Anecdoche · 21/09/2017 16:24

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Notreallyarsed · 21/09/2017 16:24

Bloody hell Serf did the comment get left up??? That’s horrific!

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CloudPerson · 21/09/2017 16:25

Well said OP.
Any thread about autism in AIBU tends to be either started by a goady fucker or well meaning but attracts ignorant goady fuckers.
Those of us who are autistic and/or have autistic children are not here for entertainment.
A thread dismissing a physical disability would be closed down and the intent of either the OP or certain posters seen immediately. Autism is apparently fair game Hmm

SerfTerf · 21/09/2017 16:25

No the whole thread went so her amazing insight went with it (she wasn't the OP).

Notreallyarsed · 21/09/2017 16:26

I’m sorry to hear that Anecdoche

I keep telling people, it’s not my kids who are the problem, it’s other people’s inflexiblity and lack of empathy (the irony is not lost on me) that makes their lives harder than it needs to be!

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HattiesBackpack · 21/09/2017 16:26

Glad you've posted this, I had a few weeks off mumsnet recently because of a really bad thread that was blatant autism bashing, there was some vile stuff on it, (to be fair mumsnet did delete it).

But it is insidious on here; a lot of disablism being hidden under very thin guises of wide eyed innocence.

Notreallyarsed · 21/09/2017 16:27

Those of us who are autistic and/or have autistic children are not here for entertainment.

Absolutely spot on, yet it feels like it sometimes on here, with no input from HQ.

Welcome back Hatties

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Notreallyarsed · 21/09/2017 16:27

Serf why am I not surprised?

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GotToGetMyFingerOut · 21/09/2017 16:28

Yip iv noticed that too and it seems to be the same theme. Makes you wonder.

Anecdoche · 21/09/2017 16:28

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picklemepopcorn · 21/09/2017 16:29

Referring to people suggesting autism when people are behaving badly- to be fair there are a load of undiagnosed older Asperger folk around. Undiagnosed ASD can look very much like someone behaving badly. That doesn't mean all people with ASD behave inappropriately, it means some people behaving inappropriately may well have ASD.

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Mogtheanxiouscat · 21/09/2017 16:30

anecdouche first post is spot one.

Anecdoche · 21/09/2017 16:30

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Notreallyarsed · 21/09/2017 16:31

I’m glad other people have noticed too, I worried this thread was going to go down the same route as usual. It’s actually really heartening to have people who feel the same all in one place, maybe that will help?

Anecdoche oh aye me too! There’s a NT kid about to go to court for sustained bullying culminating in a physical attack on DS1 (he’s 10) because he’s “weird”. The amount of comments I’ve had above my “defective genes” or “oddball kids” defies belief. All from NT people.

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