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I started knitting specifically with this project in mind and was so happy once I was able to make it.

Pattern is: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/owls-9

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[–] Disregard3145@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] positiveWHAT@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Detectives assemble! Something that could be confused as similar to Neanderthal, but isn't. I'm guessing mongoloid?

You guessed correctly. It is not always a slur, more a description in an anachronistic method of defining human ‘races’, but is apparently a slur used against autistic people and therefore has been deleted from my mental vocabulary.