The world of autism often seems like a theater filled with people and deprived of oxygen—nearly any noise is treated like shouts of “fire.”
So the media covered the latest controversy—a video produced for Autism Speaks, the nation’s largest autism advocacy group – like any other episode in the decades-long saga to understand the mysterious disorder. But this debate differs fundamentally from those surrounding the role of vaccines or genetics in contributing to autism—those contest science, while this contests the core identity of what it means to live with autism
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