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Tyler Baltierra knows what some people are saying about him out there.

And he’s not about to sit back and simply take it.

Two weeks after the Teen Mom cast member told the public he had been diagnosed with autism , Baltierra and wife Catelynn Lowell responded to comments they had seen accusing him of faking his diagnosis .

“I don’t know what’s going on,” Tyler said on the September 10 episode of his and Catelynn’s Cate & Ty Break It Down podcast.

“Society is either losing empathy, we are getting hardened. I don’t know what’s happening. The comments were so appalling.”

Referencing various remarks claiming he didn’t actually have autism but instead was “just an a–hole” or “narcissistic,” Tyler expressed how disheartening it was to see such criticism.

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