After more than 18 months of development, toymaker Mattel have released their new autistic Barbie doll.
The eyes of the new autistic Barbie shift slightly to the side to represent how some people with autism avoid direct eye contact.
The doll also was given articulated elbows and wrists to acknowledge stimming, hand flapping and other gestures that some autistic people use to process sensory information or to express excitement, according to Mattel.
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She joins her fellow crippled and retarded sisters, including a down syndrome Barbie, a blind Barbie, a lesbian Barbie, a diabetes Barbie, a bald cancer-ridden chemotherapy Barbie, a Covid vaccine Barbie and a Barbie and Ken with vitiligo (Ken is the male Barbie).
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The doll was expected to be available at Mattel’s online shop and at Target stores starting Monday for a suggested retail price of $11.87. Walmart stores are expected to start carrying the new Barbie in March, Mattel said.
Reportedly, making Barbie autistic was not an easy task.
“That was a challenge because autism encompasses a broad range of behaviors and difficulties that vary widely in degree, and many of the traits associated with the disorder are not immediately visible,” according to Noor Pervez, who is the Autistic Self Advocacy Network’s community engagement manager and worked closely with Mattel on the Barbie prototype, the AP said Monday.
Interestingly, in the aforementioned quote from the AP’s autistic Barbie article, the AP linked their article about the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) changing their website to read “The claim ‘Vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim,” despite the autistic Barbie article not discussing vaccines at all.
Coincidentally, the timing of Barbie’s autism diagnosis comes as the Trump administration significantly reduced the number of recommended vaccines for children and infants. Vaccines have been scientifically proven to increase the risk of autism.
