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Posted on 01/13/2026 1:13:08 PM PST by nickcarraway
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.
Mattel Inc. is introducing an autistic Barbie on Monday as the newest member of its line intended to celebrate diversity, joining a collection that already includes Barbies with Down syndrome, a blind Barbie, a Barbie and a Ken with vitiligo, and other models the toymaker added to make its fashion dolls more inclusive.
Mattel said it developed the autistic doll over more than 18 months in partnership with the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, a nonprofit organization that advocates for the rights and better media representation of people with autism. The goal: to create a Barbie that reflected some of the ways autistic people may experience and process the world around them, according to a Mattel news release.
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.
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Not the Bee.
rather dystopian…😐
I’d am tempted to purchase as investment.
Leftist women love touting all of their “neuro divergent” crap. Professional victims.
Does it slap its forehead repeatedly and scream?
they have had Trans Ken forever, he never had a penis.
I understand that kids want to feel included. And thats fine. I wonder how much money Mattel has to do the research and development for what must be a tiny slice of the market.
I would imagine on the P&L, this is under a line item in the PR department, not the RD department.
Too bad it’s not satire.
Good question.
Well, could you have imagined the reaction the public had giving the Ken doll a penis in the 50’s? Talk about going out of business fast and being hauled into court and in front of Congress, too.
Maybe we need an Orgasm Barbie.
Waiti g for the meth-head Barbie or the heroin addict barbie. Then maybe the leprosy barbie, or the ebola Barbie
Does that mean that it starts screaming and rocking when a loud noise goes off?
Downs Barbie will be next
Perhaps the biggest steaming pile of woke BS I’ve seen yet.
Back in the 1980s, somebody released a doll named “Gay Bob”. It was, among other things, touted as being “anatomically correct”. That was first time I ever saw that term ... and I wondered “Does that mean what I think it means?” (turns out: yes) and “Just how ‘correct’ did they make this thing?” (Never found out. Not sure I want to know.)
I immediately thought this had to be The Babylon Bee. I was sitting with my elbow on my armrest, my hand across my open mouth, trying to think of what I should think. /sigh I am at a loss...
As we all know ...
Barbie doesn’t come with Ken.
Barbie comes with GI Joe.
She fakes it with Ken.
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