Autism researchers and advocates in the United States are pushing back against the creation of an autism database that is meant to track the health of autistic people in a major research study.

https://archive.ph/R4kmB

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    17 hours ago

    Autism registry can be used to target people with autism, invade their privacy, increase stigma, and take away their rights. But I don’t see how this is eugenics. Autism isn’t even entirely genetic.

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      8 hours ago

      Do you think they will care whether it’s entirely genetic or not? For Now they blame the vaccines, later they will link it to genetics and try to prevent the spreading.

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        3 hours ago

        You said it’s eugenics. Anyway, yeah, it’s plausible the registry could be used for eugenic reasons some day but personally I think it’s intended for all those other reasons. Let’s not slippery slope fallacy.