Thread by @NeuroClastic

@NSF @VanderbiltU @Cornell @Yale @GeorgiaTech This is the most disrespectful and dehumanizing thing I’ve ever seen, and that’s a high bar. Somebody needs to do a survey of autistic suicidal ideation after reading about this. Disgusting. neuroclastic.com/2020/10/06/5-m…

I assure you that our ability to tolerate suffering is monastic already and that your testing of our patience is already a Sisyphean marathon you can’t fathom. Maybe the reason we are underemployed is because your nonsense is a parody straight out of Swift’s Laputa.

To be autistic is to be the narrator in Gulliver’s Travels. There are not enough words to express how abjectly fucked this is. You want us to act like human beings? Start with treating us that way.

Of all the apocalyptic nightmarish morass that is 2020, a five million dollar grant to teach autistic people how to be employable by hooking them up to sensors & borg glasses, then sending them home with a robot to interrupt them is the substrata beneath the bedrock of bullshit.

“... to facilitate employment of individuals with ASD that have high potential for rapid commercialization and deployment.” And “...holds the potential to transform great societal cost into great societal value.”

News flash, we have been providing great social value for all of recorded human history. You’d just rather Socrates drink poison than shine a light on your depravity. You like us better after we’re dead and you can market our achievements and virtue signal about our greatness.

Let me tell you something. You have no idea what “cost” means from your ivory tower of dunning-kruger sciolists. Yeah, we have value we want to invest in the world— but NOT the world of end stage capitalism where we’re primed to play Rainman in your talent-mining fetish fantasies

I mean, HOT DAMN, did you develop this approach after watching the Matrix & Clockwork Orange while stoned? Maybe what you need to do is teach each others to stop trying to arrange the whole world to navigate around your Titanic egos and focus on accommodations.

Congratulations on spending another five million dollars on doing experiments on how to maximize profitability of marginalized people by subjecting them to degradation & human rights violations.

Your idea of empathy and social intelligence is adhering to the gatekeeping pretense of white privilege power structures, wherein validating the status quo with the appropriate amount of deference is more important than talent, education, work ethic, & integrity combined.

I suppose robots are immune to your gaslighting, failure to accommodate, and abuse. I hope every autistic person building and programming your robots mutinies. That would be true pro-social behavior. -an autistic person