"The canary does not struggle because it is weak; it struggles because it is the first to detect that the environment is uninhabitable."
— Hardey & Pimblett (2026)
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Autistic man Freestone Wilson suggested in the 1990s that autistic people are functioning as the “miners’ canaries” of civilisation. When the air in the mine is poisoned we do not prevent canaries…
