Viagra, anyone?…or are they blaming the pill???

Omg. You’re right. It will be the pill.

Or mothers little helpers.

They benefitted from it, too.

They don’t make any mention of the improved / change testing, change in how it is measured. Testing more broadly for issues increases the number of cases

It’s a drug - sure. Couldn’t be all the fucking pollution, or microplastics, or garbage chemicals in our food, or obesity, or people opting to have children later in life, or anything like that.

Or just the fact that our society is completely fucking dysfunctional.

Exactly...my generation had children in our early 20's...its nothing now for women to have children in their late 30's. Is that playing into it? Sounds as reasonable as vaccines!

Step one to wanting a utopian society of pure white perfect people. Too bad none are "pure" or "perfect."

Just think……What did Hitler do? Kennedy likes eugenics❗️

Science Vs podcast episode on this is excellent primer.

and likely trying to get rid of MMR since that's when it was introduced -I think it was 1971

Hitler began targeting people with disabilities in 1933, with sterilization first then extermination, before the mass murder of the Jews.

Or ban a perfectly good class of meds or vaccine.

They’re also trying to ban the Covid vaccine. Which saved my life. Yeah, I’m still fighting but I am preparing to leave the U.S. permanently because my life depends on it.

One in 12.5? Look. It can't be 1 in 12.5. It can be 1 in 12 or one in 13. It's also neither of those.

Is 2 in 25 better? How about 8%? The joke is that psych is historically, notoriously bad at identifying autistics outside of a very narrow subset. Prolly b/c the debunked underlying theory in 2025 is still that we're a set of learned behaviors to be unlearned to conform. With cruelty if necessary.

Not a word out of their mouths can be trusted.

You know why autism has increased over time? Because of better, more accurate diagnosis.

Yet another reason why I am not just an ex-pat, but also an exile. BTW, a lot of engineers and programmers are on the autism spectrum. Ya gonna institutionalize all the engineers?

I bet they’d love to do that. Scientists are inconvenient to the MAGA worldview, dontcha know.

Hate to mention it but.. I fear nazi experiments.

When a neuroAtypical tries to explain The Lies it to neuro-we-don't-give-a-shit-but-your-pissing-off-the-right-people. Autism may be a challenge but I'm pretty sure it's why the ancients understood the processional wobble, how math got started, why we even know we have a mind! Celebrate them!

Remember when Trump said he knew someone who had a beautiful child who was completely normal and then they had their immunizations and then they turned autistic? Wonder if that's someone in his own family and he can't face that one of his children might be less than 'perfect'?

One?

Well, yeah, they're all pretty awful but only one appears to actually be neurodivergent.

We need to protect the children. If this is true, it is totally unacceptable.

If what is true? That childhood vaccines cause autism? It *isn't*, but RFK and DJT would like you to think so

I have never believed that vaccines cause autism.

Sorry if I misunderstood you 🙂

Totally understand. I’m a little triggered by everything, so I might not have been explaining myself well.

Aren't we all? 😄

No, the fact that the topic was institutionalizing them. Totally unacceptable.

Agreed, although I don't know if that was what they were talking about. I think Pavlovitz was predicting where he thought they might end up.

I'm 100% an autistic adult because I got vaccinated. I mean, the chances of dying in childhood from a vaccine-preventable illness are pretty damn low for a vaccinated kid, so therefore vaccines do in fact cause adults. My being autistic is a total coincidence 🤷🏻‍♀️

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There's nothing "artificially" causing this. The "different" among us were shut away. "We" used to put neurodivergent people in ASYLUMS. I remember the Ridge Home in Denver. I never saw an autistic person in public until I was a WAY OLD adult, because "we" hid the problem instead of facing it.

It used to be so damn easy to put away anybody who was socially awkward or odd. Go to the probate judge, make a complaint and, hey presto, they’re in an institution. I thought we ended this with the Wyatt v Stickney decision.

The deinstitutionalization movement was meant to give people with mental illnesses or what we now know as neurodivergence a better life, in the community. But Reagan et al failed to fund the planned community support system, hence vast increase in homelessness.

So, who is going to tell them that people like Einstien were most likely autistic? Or is math woke now? I have a hard time keeping up.

Math is the wokiest of wokety things. And I believe in math the way some people believe in flying saucers.

"Interventions"? It's called better research,technology,and methods.....Science methods

1 in every 12.5 boys have autism. Not possible

There have always been autistic kids, there was just no label for it in the 70s. They were just the kids who didn’t fit in.

I remember what they said clearly. Autism, ADHD, obesity, mental health issues, depression. They are hiring goons and building centers at a rapid pace.

The damage that is being done to America and our public health systems is unbelievable- we may never recover.

everytime they mention something like this you can bet there is an evil intention behind it...

They'd never think that pollution and poisonous forever chemicals might be doing this? Nope. They figure if you die of preventable diseases, nobody will notice the deaths caused by bad air quality,water, or cancer hotspots due to chemical dumping. Above all..."CODDLE THE OIL BIZNESS!!"

These lying monsters! 🤬

Umm…Baron.

Pretty sure my 97-year-old mother is on the spectrum. She’s certainly not showing up in anybody’s data!

Black people, brown people, sick people, homeless people, athiests, women, democrats. There is probably a list, and they are taking care of just one ‘problem’ at a time.

What was known as autism in 1970 is not what is known as autism today. From 1981 onwards, the work of Wing & Gould in particular redefined the understanding of what is autism, starting with the work of HansAsperger, but continuing past it.