Autism “Awareness” Month and The Things People Say

Jennifer R. Povey
7 min readApr 1, 2021
Photo by Alena Jarrett on Unsplash

The other day I was on Facebook when somebody started talking about how she thought vaccines could cause autism.

Being an idiot I jumped in and insisted that they didn’t and that saying they did was insulting to autistic people.

She said she didn’t see how, and that’s when things descended. Here’s her next comment.

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Jennifer R. Povey

I write about fantasy, science fiction and horror, LGBT issues, travel, and social issues.