Sesame Street Introduces Autistic Character, What Could Go Wrong?
Posted by MichaelGroff on October 26, 2015 | Filed under Podcasts
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By now, many of you have undoubtedly learned that Sesame Street introduced a new character named Julia. The green eyed, orange haired girl made her debut in an online book titled “We’re Amazing, 1, 2, 3!” Julia has autism and, as Elmo explains when introducing her to Abby, she may exhibit some strange behavior.
This may seem to be an odd addition to the cast by the popular children’s program, however with autism now affected one in 68 children, according to the Centers for Disease Control statistics, the inclusion seems somewhat appropriate.
Here Come the Protests
Most of us in the civilized world are completely fine with the ambiguously homosexual relationship between Bert and Ernie and find Oscar’s anger management issues to be amusing, but now you have a new enemy Sesame Street… get ready for the anti-vaxxers. Really?
“The rollout of autistic Julia is Sesame Street’s attempt to ‘normalize’ vaccine injuries and depict those victimized by vaccines as happy, ‘amazing’ children rather than admitting the truth that vaccines cause autism in some children and we should therefore make vaccines safer and less frequent to save those children from a lifetime of neurological damage,” wrote Mike “The Health Ranger” Adams, of Natural News.
Yes, he’s serious. Meanwhile others are lobbing complaints at the show because Julia is a girl and autism is far more likely to affect boys. In addition, some have taken exception with the fact that Julia’s autism is relatively mild.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Adams continues on his post regarding the character, “yet another sickening example of the absolute mental derangement of modern society.” If only ever child could be disease/issue free and lily-white with perfectly straight teeth, blond hair and blue eyes, right Mr. Adams? The nerve of that kid’s television show to teach inclusion, particularly when it comes to a condition that affects more than a million children in the U.S. alone.
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