Has anyone noticed yet that the people freaking out about autistic folks having sex lives keeps boiling down to "what if they make babies?" Lots of idiots are pulling the "they're mentally children" card, but they're way more scared of us reproducing than they are of us being abused.
This is exactly the point. Forced sterilizations of our community is still a thing. It’s still legal in many states (including mine) for CPS to harass us and take our kids for no reason except our disability.
And then there’s the recent report stating that autistic children raised by autistic parents are more difficult for mental health professionals to diagnose because they’ve been raised in a supportive and accommodating environment rather than been terrorized by the system (says a lot about our diagnostic criteria).
For a host of reasons, the ones against autistics having sex really don’t want more of us around, likely because they openly or subtlety see the autistic in their life as a burden.
