Overcoming Prejudice Through Exposure
New and unfamiliar things are often met with fear long before they’re met with understanding.
Major technological innovations and autistic people can sometimes face a similar social pattern: skepticism, misunderstanding, and even prejudice simply because they challenge what people are used to.
History is full of innovations that were once treated as threatening or disruptive, only to become ordinary parts of everyday life once people understood them better. As familiarity grows, the fear often fades. What once seemed like a crisis eventually becomes something so normal that society barely…
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