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Amy Schumer was on Late Night with Seth Meyers last night. She’s promoting her new Netflix standup special, Growing, which I’ve heard good things about. (I tried to watch it and I couldn’t get through it but I’ve been in an impatient mood lately.) Amy came out with a huge fake bump on, that photo is below. She told a joke about smoking so her baby wouldn’t be huge, which was messy but funny, and she said that she still has hyperemesis and that she threw up a bunch of times on the way to the show. She said “I’m lucky I have good healthcare and I can get an IV and survive.” Amy is getting the most headlines for talking about the fact that she opened up in her special about her husband’s autism diagnosis. She told Seth that she talked about it with his approval and that they want to reduce the stigma associated with autism, similar to how ADHD is now more understood and acceptable than it was years ago.

You talk about how he got tested and is on the autism spectrum
He was diagnosed as high functioning autism spectrum disorder.

That has been a sum positive for your marriage
That’s why we both wanted to talk about it, because it’s been totally positive, I think a lot of people resist getting diagnosed even with some of their children because of the stigma that comes along with it.

But you’re not just diagnosed and then they throw you out. Hopefully you can get help. The tools that we’ve been given have made his life so much better and our marriage and our life more manageable. So I just wanted to encourage people to not be afraid of that stigma.

You know when ADD was the new thing? You were a little embarrassed if you got diagnosed with attention deficit and now everyone is like ‘I have that.’

I think there are a lot of people with autism who go undiagnosed when I think their life could be better if they got those tools.

That’s wonderful
Also his life and his trajectory that’s not everybody on the spectrum. He’s an amazing guy I don’t want to make it sound like ‘I’m so nice that I married someone with autism.’

I fell in love with him and I wouldn’t trade him in for anybody.

My wife and I… know Chris and he’s incapable of lying
It’s a dream but it’s also a real nightmare. I came out right before [and] changed outfits, and I was like ‘Does this look okay?’ And he was like ‘Well it’s too late.’

He’s right, though. It was too late.

He also can’t lie on your behalf
It’s really challenging because he can’t lie for me. You need your partner to be like, ‘Yeah, we do have to get home!’ And he’s like ‘No, we have nowhere to be.’

I really like what she said about being open about her husband’s autism so it reduces the stigma. There were so many wonderful comments on the last post from parents of children with autism. Thank you to those of you who commented that this is a positive change that shows that awareness and acceptance is increasing. I love those type of threads and I learned a lot from you. Many of you also said that Amy is helping change the perception that autism is something to be “cured” by explaining how it can be a strength.

Here is the video of that part of her interview:

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Thanks for having me on @latenightseth and I’m so thrilled that so many publications had women write reviews for my special! ????Chris and I are overwhelmed but the love and support from this special. I’m so grateful and proud as hell. Thank you for posting about it! I’m reading them all! Thanks for my makeup @andrea_tiller and my hair @cailenoble and my dress @chloehartstein and the costume dept for my fake bump!

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