Why did 'autism' become a common insult?

why did 'autism' become a common insult?

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Because people got mad when other people said they had autism, so people learned that by saying you had autism it could make people angry.

To suppress science with Newspeak.

language undergoes change just like how we don't use "pwned" and "noob" anymore

No joke. Some people here actually have autism.

It became an insult when everyone realized that each elementary classroom had at least one autistic kid

/jp/ pioneered the term years ago. It then leached to other boards and increasingly became more mainstream after that, branching out to sites like reddit.

Because the internet is overflowing with them

Because it's a bit more nuanced than "retarded"