Comment by autoexec
1 day ago
activities that would result in "identifying themselves as autists" include: seeking a diagnosis in the first place, getting the help of a mental health professional, frequenting support groups and forums, and wearing a fitbit or smart watch.
It's really not a good thing when people, high functioning or not, are forced to choose between getting the help they need and being targeted by their government.
> and wearing a fitbit or smart watch.
Since when is wearing smart watches only for autists?
It's one of the many private data sources they were planning to use to track and collect data on autistic people for their database. https://people.com/rfk-jr-to-launch-autism-registry-using-pr...
Autistic or not, giving that kind of health information to private for-profit companies who collect that data to use it against you or sell to third parties was never a good idea even before the government wanted to take it for themselves.
Ah, I didn't know that. To me your sentence read like autists out themselves by wearing a smartwatch.
Fully agree with you on that, the less data they have, the better.