Advocates worry that as HHS secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could undermine years of work to unlink autism and vaccines and divert precious research dollars to a discredited theory.
Yes, well what do you expect from people who think it’s a disease that can be cured (often with quack shit like bleach)?
I understand that parents find parenting an autistic child difficult. I have a high-functioning autistic child and that is difficult enough.
But they are just giving these people false hope. Autism can’t be cured, just like many other ways people can be disabled. No one seems to be talking about curing Down’s Syndrome.
A lot of this shit comes straight from Autism Speaks, by the way.
Wonder how the court case would go for parents that fed their autistic kid bleach and claim they were told officially by the government that it was a cure.
Both of mine are AuDHD (or maybe ADHD Gold edition?) and I love them for exactly who they are, even with what a huge pain in the ass the neurodivergence can be sometimes. It frankly annoys me when people, almost always people who never had any experience raising autistic kids, send me “cures” for autism. They don’t need to be cured, fuckers, this is who they are, stop telling me to put them on juice cleanses or what the fuck ever.
I think a lot of it is down to the fact that these kids can be difficult, there’s no two ways about it. That makes people uncomfortable, and they want to solve that discomfort by helping. How do you help? Well, their autism related behaviors are what made them uncomfortable, so let’s make the autism go away. Unfortunately, there’s a huge grift industry around “helping” autistic kids.
Yes, well what do you expect from people who think it’s a disease that can be cured (often with quack shit like bleach)?
I understand that parents find parenting an autistic child difficult. I have a high-functioning autistic child and that is difficult enough.
But they are just giving these people false hope. Autism can’t be cured, just like many other ways people can be disabled. No one seems to be talking about curing Down’s Syndrome.
A lot of this shit comes straight from Autism Speaks, by the way.
https://neuroclastic.com/autism-speaks-and-aba-same-corrupt-methods-different-coat-of-paint/
Wonder how the court case would go for parents that fed their autistic kid bleach and claim they were told officially by the government that it was a cure.
Both of mine are AuDHD (or maybe ADHD Gold edition?) and I love them for exactly who they are, even with what a huge pain in the ass the neurodivergence can be sometimes. It frankly annoys me when people, almost always people who never had any experience raising autistic kids, send me “cures” for autism. They don’t need to be cured, fuckers, this is who they are, stop telling me to put them on juice cleanses or what the fuck ever.
I think a lot of it is down to the fact that these kids can be difficult, there’s no two ways about it. That makes people uncomfortable, and they want to solve that discomfort by helping. How do you help? Well, their autism related behaviors are what made them uncomfortable, so let’s make the autism go away. Unfortunately, there’s a huge grift industry around “helping” autistic kids.
Ok but have they tried adding bleach to the vaccines?? Surely you are removing the autism from the vaccine by doing so ?