Assuming you’re asking about what she’s said about Autism and not people with depression or self-harm issues, it was basically revealed in her video “Self-Destruction”.

In it, when she was talking about the danger of romanticizing self-harm and depression and downsizing the need to cure it, she mentioned Autism as being in the same vein as them. Given that you cannot cure Autism, nor is it nearly as destructive as depression or self-harm, this came off as ignorant at best.

Still being at the point in my life where it was right before I was through with giving her the benefit of the doubt, I told her in the comments that some people with Autism don’t see it as a bad thing and that some have even found that they enjoy the outside-the-box kind of thinking and different perspective on life it gives them, and that famously smart people like Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, and Oscar Wilde have been theorized to have had Autism.

This was her response:

First of all, the first part of that response clearly came from someone who was dismissive of the idea to the point where they didn’t even bother to look up the legitimacy of the studies themselves. It was so dismissive that she might as well not have even added it in the first place.

Second of all, yes, Autism does affect your ability to socialize. But it also has a host of other effects, such as giving you the ability to visualize things in your mind a lot better than most people and being able to look at an issue in multiple ways easier. So saying that the benefits are the product of one’s own activities is another clear sign of someone who’s incredibly dismissive of the research done on it. I understand that some of it might seem far out there, but in the words of Mr. Enter, “There gets to be a point where coincidences are no longer coincidences. They form trends.“

Not to mention that saying “They’re only attributed to Autism in an attempt to make kids feel better about it” is just explicitly dismissive of the entire Autistic community and how they feel about their conditions. I find myself using that word a lot as I type this, but that’s how I’d describe Lily’s attitude towards people with Autism in a nuthsell: dismissive. And for someone who really goes out of her way to appeal and defend the rights of the LGBT community, it’s honestly kind of shocking that she’d go even this low.

Then again, I’ve heard people saying she faked having Autism a few years ago, so I guess she decided, “If I can’t look cool by being in the A-crowd, then no one can!”

I actually asked Amythest Schaber what her thoughts were on this, but she never responded. In retrospect, I think she did that on purpose. People like this don’t really deserve attention from people as respectable and kind as Amythest (it still shocks me that Josh chooses to even associate with Lilly).

(A horrifying thought came to me as I typed this… Lily mentioned that she would drag someone “kicking and screaming” to a psychiatrist if they had depression. Would she do the same thing to someone with Autism? Would she go the JRC route and forcibly hold someone down if they were having a meltdown?)