Fine Gael senator Catherine Noone has apologised and withdrawn her remarks after she described Leo Varadkar as “autistic”.
According to The Times.ie, the Dublin Bay North candidate made the comments while canvassing.
In a statement this morning, the Fine Gael election candidate apologised and withdrew her remarks;
“I unequivocally apologise and withdraw all of my remarks, as reported by theTimes.ie, which were completely unacceptable. My choice of language was inexcusable and wrong. I am truly sorry."
Deputy CEO of 'As I am', Ireland's National Autism Charity, is Fiona Ferris.
She says we need to be careful not to undermine the complexity of the condition;
"While of course many people use the word autistic to describe certain collection of character traits that's not necessarily helping autistic people be understood."
She went on to say; "The autistic community are already being stereotyped based on other people's opinion of what autism means."
