May 14, 2021
10 min read
The Autism Mom: Why Is She Like That?
A (somewhat) brief history of autism’s most controversial archetype
The Autism Mom is an infamous villain in the autistic community. We love to make fun of her, to write angry think pieces about her, to fight her on Twitter.
We are outraged that she wants to cure or fix her children, that she supports Autism Speaks, that she blames autism on vaccines and tells us how to…
