dchtzr dchtzr asked Tentatively, A Convenience:

as an autistic person who respects you for your work in noise music, seeing you praise dudes like wakefield without thinking about how anti-vax rhetoric perpetuates negative stereotypes about autism n neurodivergent people in gen makes me uncomfy. what is your opinion on the nd community n its relationship with anti-vax thought n such?

Tentatively, A Convenience Thank you for your question. I appreciate the sincerity of it. I don't think that your characterizing me as praising "dudes like wakefield without thinking about how anti-vax rhetoric perpetuates negative stereotypes about autism" is in any way fair or accurate about my actual opinions. The best I can do is recommend that you read my book "THE SCIENCE (volume 1)" in which I review 3 books on autism: Elizabeth Fein's "Living on the Spectrum", Andrew J. Wakefield's "Callous Disregard", & Paul A. Offit's "Autism's False Prophets". Of those 3 books, my sympathies are closest to Fein's. I have mixed feelings about Wakefield but feel that there's a heavy propaganda campaign against him. Offit is the one I'm least in agreement with. I explain all 3 of my reactions in detail.

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