Autism Comment From An Article Author Of The Vanity Fair Receives Backlashes From Social Media

An article written about Mark Zuckerberg receive some backlashes as insensitive comments about autism was placed in the first two paragraphs. Many struggled to even read it, even when the whole point of the article is to give praise to Zuckerberg for beating Google from creating a rival social network that is known to be Google+

This lede is garbage. And it's a great way to let people know not to read on. https://t.co/LjYH2r3H1D pic.twitter.com/kLSzPcxqV4

— James Tyler (@JamesTylerESPN) June 4, 2016

The article was written by Garcia Martinez and it was published through Vanity Fair.  Martinez was a former Facebook employee. Because of this controversy, Martinez who was a known as Chaos Money on Twitter had to defend himself from all the enormous complaint and name calling deemed him by Twitter netizens.

@edzitron @elongreen If you'd read the piece, you'd realize I was negating the tired autistic savant trope, as shown in the film TSN.

— Chaos Monkey (@antoniogm) June 5, 2016

An article in The Daily Dot, even stated that they are not sure whether Martinez did not exactly mean to offend anyone on the autism spectrum, or those living with Asperger's. They wanted to give the benefit of the doubt that he may just be refuting to the character of Zuckerberg, as he was portrayed in the movie of him, The Social Network.

According to Martinez, Zuckerberg is an old school genius. He wrote, quote: "The fiery force of nature possessed by a tutelary spirit of seemingly supernatural provenance that fuels and guides him, intoxicates his circle, and compels his retinue to be great as well."

As for the a study conducted but the Interactive Autism Network in the U.S., they have found, that about a half of the numbers of people living with the autism condition have an above average IQ, which means a score of above 85.

Yet again, come backlashes do escalate for a little bit more. This made Martinez defend himself for quite a number of times as well.

@Gabriel__Lewis written by an ignoramus.

— Keith Rabois (@rabois) June 4, 2016

Until later on he conceded. According to The Mighty, he admitted in the end that the article should have had a better lede at the beginning.

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