The cure for autism in the Netherlands is euthanasia
I wrote this article to ask a blunt question: when Dutch autistic people are misdiagnosed, socially excluded, denied real support, and then offered euthanasia, is that care, or is it a systemic failure dressed up as 'voluntary'? Drawing on research, politics, and my own experience, I argue that the Netherlands risks replacing inclusion with an exit and that it is cruel that we celebrate people's neurodiversity when they're dead.