{"id":686281,"date":"2026-01-12T12:44:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=686281"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:44:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:44:44","slug":"barbie-got-vaxxed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=686281","title":{"rendered":"Barbie got Vaxxed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mattel Inc. is introducing an autistic Barbie on Monday as the newest member of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/barbie-introduces-type-1-diabetes-doll-b60ab201a42604aeec03ba06346e1197\">its line<\/a>\u00a0intended to celebrate diversity, joining a collection that already includes Barbies with Down syndrome, a blind Barbie, a Barbie and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/barbie-movie-ken-doll-sales-kenough-3474931ad500b47ecc19a92418fd9368\">a Ken<\/a>\u00a0with vitiligo, and other models the toymaker added to make\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/video\/london-e92167c230974084a176f99373e8a9dc\">its fashion dolls<\/a>\u00a0more inclusive.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the eyes of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cherokee-nation-wilma-mankiller-mattel-barbie-oklahoma-060faaf1d0cc13e401e79497c14b65cc\">new Barbie<\/a>\u00a0shift slightly to the side to represent how some people with autism sometimes avoid direct eye contact, he said. The doll also was given articulated elbows and wrists to acknowledge stimming, hand flapping and other gestures that some autistic people use to process sensory information or to express excitement, according to Mattel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mattel Inc. is introducing an autistic Barbie on Monday as the newest member of\u00a0its line\u00a0intended to celebrate diversity, joining a collection that already includes Barbies with Down syndrome, a blind Barbie, a Barbie and\u00a0a Ken\u00a0with vitiligo, and other models the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=686281\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2826,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2826"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686282,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686281\/revisions\/686282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}