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I'm Josh Wilmelina and I'm Rishikesh Hereway.

Before we jump into bad moon rising, we wanted to take a second to address something from

a couple episodes ago from the Stack House filibuster.

In our timeline currently, we have just put out the Stack House filibuster.

We're going to be hearing this a couple of weeks later, but we wanted to address one thing

that came up.

Also I would say every episode of the podcast leaves something we didn't fully cover or

something that could have been presented another way.

We don't always have the luxury.

We don't always take the time to go back and address.

But a couple people reached out to us after the live episode was published and pointed

at a glaring mistake, which is that we discussed autism on our own.

We aired a couple pieces of audio from parents of autistic children and we failed to take

into account that we had autistic listeners of the podcast and a couple of them reached

out to us and they made some interesting points that we wanted to include today.

We heard from a woman named Amy and a woman named Jill.

I want to read a little bit from an email that we got from Amy.

She said, I want to invite you just to consider a fundamentally different viewpoint on autism.

Autism is not a neurological deficit, but rather a neurological difference.

She says homosexuality used to be considered a disease that ought to be cured through

severely psychologically damaging treatments.

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