Disposable America: Autism and the Machinery of Control

From surveillance registries to service cuts, how the U.S. is criminalizing and commodifying neurodivergence.

In America, the measure of a life too often comes down to its usefulness—a brutal calculus of productivity, conformity, and cost. If you can’t work a full-time job, need accommodations, or move through the world differently, then in the eyes of our systems, you are expendable.

Nowhere is that more evident than in how this country treats autistic people.

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