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\\\"Awareness campaigns emphasized the small minority of autistics with the most obvious, severe cases, and implied that autistics could not learn or have meaningful lives; often, in an effort to gather more donations, autism \\\"charities\\\" would make autism sound like a fate worse than death (one Autism Speaks spokesperson claimed to have considered killing herself and her child, but to have been prevented by the fact that she had another, normal child).

With autism having such an unrealistically frightening reputation, doctors became afraid that a child\\\'s mother would hit them with her purse (or, more realistically, either refuse to believe the diagnosis or else give up on the child.\\\"

\\\'Awareness campaigns emphasized the small minority of autistics with the most obvious, severe cases, and implied that autistics could not learn or have meaningful lives; often, in an effort to gather more donations, autism \\\"charities\\\" would make autism sound like a fate worse than death (one Autism Speaks spokesperson claimed to have considered killing herself and her child, but to have been prevented by the fact that she had another, normal child).

With autism having such an unrealistically frightening reputation, doctors became afraid that a child\\\'s mother would hit them with her purse (or, more realistically, either refuse to believe the diagnosis or else give up on the child.\\\'

\\\'\\\'Awareness campaigns emphasized the small minority of autistics with the most obvious, severe cases, and implied that autistics could not learn or have meaningful lives; often, in an effort to gather more donations, autism \\\"charities\\\" would make autism sound like a fate worse than death (one Autism Speaks spokesperson claimed to have considered killing herself and her child, but to have been prevented by the fact that she had another, normal child).

With autism having such an unrealistically frightening reputation, doctors became afraid that a child\\\'s mother would hit them with her purse (or, more realistically, either refuse to believe the diagnosis or else give up on the child.\\\'\\\'

Suggestion to cut this part or at least reword into something a little more neutral:

\\\'\\\'Awareness campaigns emphasized the small minority of autistics with the most obvious, severe cases, and implied that autistics could not learn or have meaningful lives; often, in an effort to gather more donations, autism \\\"charities\\\" would make autism sound like a fate worse than death (one Autism Speaks spokesperson claimed to have considered killing herself and her child, but to have been prevented by the fact that she had another, normal child).

With autism having such an unrealistically frightening reputation, doctors became afraid that a child\\\'s mother would hit them with her purse (or, more realistically, either refuse to believe the diagnosis or else give up on the child.\\\'\\\'