Today’s piece with The Big Picture writer Amelia Mavis Christnot is a must-read… “Autism doesn’t need a cure. It needs empathy and understanding.

I think if we approached ASD from that perspective we could better help individuals who are nonverbal or who have coexisting disabilities.

And mental illness is not an excuse for racism or mass shootings.

There are millions of us with actual diagnoses and we’ve never gone on a bigoted rant or shot up a school, church or movie theater. Stop blaming poor choices on mental illness.”

https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/questions-team-takei-amelia-christnot

—@georgetakei