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Guaranteed Human. Mother Knows Death. Starring Nicole and Jenny and Maria Kuk. Hi everyone. Welcome to the mother knows death on today's episode.

We're going to talk about the new autistic Barbie, a stingray that stabbed a man in the stomach,

a kidnapped girl who was eaten alive by alliators a person who did cocaine then ingested a bunch of

weird stuff causing a hole in his esophagus and we'll talk about alice in wonderland syndrome all that

and more on today's episode autistic Barbie what do you think?

I think it's cool representation, but I was seeing like really mixed reviews online about it.

So they posted the release of this Barbie as part of this collection they're doing where they also, I think we reported when they released the Down syndrome Barbie, right?

Yeah.

So they have the Down syndrome Barbie.

They have one that's blind, ones with Vita Lego, prosthetic leg, hearing aids, etc.

So they worked with the autistic self-advocacy network to develop this doll.

And it's part of this line of inclusive dolls for to try to represent kids with disabilities and other things going on but I've been seeing some people online that say

I have autism and this is offensive and then some people saying this is really awesome to be

included so I don't know like I don't know what to think because, like, I personally am not affected

by this, so I don't really think I have a right to talk about it.

If that's, if that's the angle I want to go at, I think it's cool that Mattel wants to do

this, but if people are getting offended by it, then I don't know.

I just think that with autism there's there's such a spectrum of things to just and I understand it with more with down syndrome or

the type one diabetes even with the pump and Vidalego, these are things that you

could see with your eyes.

Is autism, autism to me isn't really necessarily like a thing that you could just make

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