Autistic men and autistic women of the world, wherever you are, you are wrongly maligned, stigmatized, persecuted at every turn by a world that needs you but completely fails to understand you. It's not your fault. No one says what they mean anymore. It's not worth understanding what they're saying anyway.

Luckily for you, another group of similarly marginalized individuals has blazed a trail not only to tolerance but onwards to veneration. We don't have much time. Listen closely: This podcast comes out March 1st. The 20th annual world congress of psychiatry takes place from March 10th to the 13th. You need to find your way into any now virtual seminars or meetings about autism and you need to protest as loudly as humanly possible. I understand that some of you are screamers so this should be easy.

You need to keep doing this at every gathering of psychiatrists until they are so completely fed up with your bullshit that they take you out of the DSM. Plead like goats. Moan like sirens. Scream like the eagles you know you are. Once that happens, we'll move on to step 2 in a later episode.