Why did 'autism' become a common insult?

[Hunter Gonzalez]

why did 'autism' become a common insult?

[Robert Reyes]

boing boing

[Eli Gomez]

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.

[Kayden Lee]

To suppress science with Newspeak.

[Gabriel Gutierrez]

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

[Gabriel Bell]

No joke. Some people here actually have autism.

[Easton Powell]

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

[Aaron Sanchez]

/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.

[Asher Rodriguez]

Because the internet is overflowing with them

[Owen Wood]

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