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I'm using past tense since I have not looked into Christine for a while. I take pride in avoiding information which I might do for difficult subjects in general but particularly here since her fetishizers and harassers have a thing for infodumping her life onto people.

It's just so upsetting to see a fellow autist be subjected to vile ableist bullying and harassment, dehumanization, and moralization. Even in more tame aspects of her harassment it makes me so sad that many people know about her but many won't bother to be compassionate or patient toward someone they don't understand, instead jumping on freak show bandwagon, if not as active participant, as judgmental observer.

To clarify I'm okay with people having "problematic interests" but I'm talking about a systemic problem. CWC being broadly interesting is a byproduct of a culture of ableist gawking. As an autist who values accepting autists and their traits, even the less palatable treats, and who has seen a few autists (understated for humor), CWC is not a novelty. She's a victim.

While this isn't exclusively a radqueer take I think it's heavily aligned with radqueer.

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