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The Anti-Vaxx Movement: Where Pseudoscience Meets Ableism According to the anti-vaxx website Natural News, “The rollout of autistic Julia is Sesame Street’s attempt to “normalize” vaccine injuries and depict those victimized by vaccines as happy, ‘amazing’ children rather than admitting the truth that vaccines cause autism in some children and we should th...

One of the biggest contributors to stigma surrounding Autism is how media presents the community to neurotypical audiences. Since its debut in the 1960s, Sesame Street has prepared its younger audiences for the world they'll enter, continuously tackling realities most children's programming are afraid to acknowledge. Now, from the looks of it, we can count on them to portray this character with that same love and nuance.

Meet 'Sesame Street's' muppet with autism The newest resident of "Sesame Street" has orange hair and a fondness for her toy rabbit. She also has autism.

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When people who are in a position to help do not educate themselves or listen to professionals, they end up creating more harm than good. Share if you agree our leaders should not use their influence to spread misinformation, the myth of a "cure" or stigmas surrounding nuerodiversity.

Donald Trump Has a Dangerously Misguided View of Autism Donald Trump focused in on a misguided discussion of autism with educators and Betsy DeVos