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> they can be helped by medical research and support for their parents.

Many people in the "autism rights" movement oppose these things, often with strident rhetoric. They view any "medicalization" of the condition they happen to share with their lower-functioning fellows as inherently inhumane.




That sentence was in reference to helping low-functioning people with autism.




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