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...participants [at a retreat for autistics]...can wear color-coded badges that indicate whether they are willing to be approached for conversation.
I will be very happy if this ever becomes socially acceptable practice for non-autistics, or for that matter in mixed autistic and non-autistic company.
Here is the New York Times story, fascinating in its own right, about how many autistics do not wish to be "cured."
Posted by Tyler Cowen on December 20, 2004 at 08:22 AM in Science | Permalink
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