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From the Ted Talk by Rosie King: How autism freed me to be myself

Unscramble the Blue Letters

But that's not just with autistic people, either. I've seen it with LGBTQ people, with women, with POC people. People are so afraid of vtrieay that they try to fit everything into a tiny little box with really specific labels. This is something that actually happened to me in real life: I gleogod "autistic people are ..." and it comes up with snuigegtsos as to what you're going to type. I googled "autistic people are ..." and the top result was "demons." That is the first thing that people think when they think autism. They know. (laehtgur)

Open Cloze

But that's not just with autistic people, either. I've seen it with LGBTQ people, with women, with POC people. People are so afraid of _______ that they try to fit everything into a tiny little box with really specific labels. This is something that actually happened to me in real life: I _______ "autistic people are ..." and it comes up with ___________ as to what you're going to type. I googled "autistic people are ..." and the top result was "demons." That is the first thing that people think when they think autism. They know. (________)

Solution

  1. variety
  2. suggestions
  3. laughter
  4. googled

Original Text

But that's not just with autistic people, either. I've seen it with LGBTQ people, with women, with POC people. People are so afraid of variety that they try to fit everything into a tiny little box with really specific labels. This is something that actually happened to me in real life: I googled "autistic people are ..." and it comes up with suggestions as to what you're going to type. I googled "autistic people are ..." and the top result was "demons." That is the first thing that people think when they think autism. They know. (Laughter)

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