The minds behind the now-cancelled Spectrum 10k project are really quite ticked off that their totally non-creepy plan to collect autistic DNA has been scuppered by a gang of scrappy autistics, it has been rumoured.
The project, which asked autistic subjects for their saliva for reasons that definitely have nothing to do with eugenics, honest, announced yesterday that it was closing the doors to its creepy basement lab (probably) after autistics responded with a resounding “ew, stop it.”
An anonymous source close to the project explained: “The project aimed to find out what causes autism. It doesn’t then follow that we were trying to prevent it in the future.”
Autistic spokesperson, Paige Thomas, 45, responded: “What the fuck were you trying to do, then?”
The anonymous source then made a series of huffing noises and told our reporter: “See what we have to deal with?”
Paige Thomas could be reached for plenty of further comment, and was described by our anonymous source as “wildly inconvenient.”
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