Fine Gael Senator Catherine Noone has apologised and withdrawn her remarks describing Taoiseach Leo Varadkar as autistic.
(Source: @senatornoone/Instagram)According to The Times Ireland edition the Dublin Bay North candidate made the comments while canvassing.
In a statement this morning, the Fine Gael election candidate has apologised and withdrawn her remarks.
She describes her choice of language when referencing An Taoiseach as inexcusable and wrong.
(Source: Fine Gael press office)Fiona Ferris, who is the Deputy CEO of 'As I Am', Ireland's national autism charity, says we need to be careful not to undermine the complexity of the condition:
"There's quite an extensive diagnostic process and while, of course, many people use the word autistic to describe a certain collection of character traits, that's not necessarily helping autistic people be understood...the autistic community is already being stereotyped based on other people's opinion of what autism means but every autistic person is completely different."
