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[Helpful Resource] How Abuse Mars the Lives of Autistic People (www.spectrumnews.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A well-sourced and compassionate review of the abuse autistic people may often experience and its impact.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I was so confused for several seconds what the red planet had anything to do with this.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Yeah, same. English is not my primary language, so...

mars, verb

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mar.

mar, transitive verb

To inflict damage, especially disfiguring damage, on.

To impair the soundness, perfection, or integrity of; spoil.

To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

seeing it capitalized in the post title didn't help. 😆

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