I’m sure RFK’s explanation will be something insane like fluoride, but in recent years we have found mounting evidence that autism is caused by a genetically-based cellular malfunction that puts cells into deeply impactful danger response mode (CDR). More importantly, the theory behind this has led to an experimental therapy that has demonstrated almost miraculous results in all participants after one treatment. I’m not sure if it’s too late for an autistic dinosaur like me to see any benefits, but the research on this so far seems overwhelming.
https://www.autismparentingmagazine.com/autism-suramin-evolution/
“These are kids who will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem, they’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted,” Kennedy said. “Autism destroys families.”
Interesting. As an autistic person in their 50s who have done all of those things and have a family a family of own, I’d like to say that he seems to be describing wealthy Republicans rather than autistic people.
I hope it’s electricity. The chaos would be engaging.
people who announce what they’re gonna announce don’t have sh to say.
And these causes I’m sure will be backed by scientific evidence right? Or are they going to pulled out of rfk maggoty ass?
wow what shitty, dangerous rhetoric to spread
It apparently was already done in July without his help.
But he’s probably scrambling to pin the blame in something that isn’t tied to big oil / plastic.
“We have found that autism is caused by woke”
What I expect is that he will try to push the “we need to reserve the autism label for low functioning boys”, Trump will sign an executive order titled “Restoring the Integrity of Autism Diagnosis act”, with a lot of other disgusting caveats, like forcing a “cure” (read: beating) on the higher functioning ones for acting weird, and also push the “extreme female brain theory of Borderline Personality Disorder” angle of female autism.
Woke vaccines, I knew it all along!
I guarantee that they bring up “woke”
Who you gonna trust? Scientists who have researched the problem for their whole professional lives, or Maggot Brain?
Don’t call him that, please. Stick with worm brain or something else, anything else, I beg you.
Please don’t sully the title of both a fantastic album and the greatest guitar solo ever put to recording.
Don’t let these people soil yet another thing in this life.
Whaaaaat?!? How dare you?! I’m going to trust the scientists that maggot brain will put in front of the microphone!
/s just to be sure. There should be some reaaaaally large air quotations marks around the word scientists.
Pregnancy, final answer.
If they had actually discovered a cause of autism, or even substantially advanced research in that area they would have announced it right away, rather than engaging in this hype cycle bs like they are trying to defraud a venture capitalist.
More to the point, we already know the cause of autism; genetics. This isn’t new, it’s not some shocking discovery, it’s been known about for ages. Most of the research at this point is focused on the interconnections between autism, ADHD, dyslexia and dysphraxia, which all show a high propensity for genetic clustering; basically if one person in a family has one of them, the odds of the others being present in the same or other members shoots up massively. That’s really interesting and suggests they might all just be different manifestations of the same underlying genetic condition.
The whole notion that autism has a “cause” is just anti-vaxxer nonsense concocted by a fraud doctor (that’s not an accusation, it’s a fact; he was stripped of his medical license after it was shown that his “research” was a sham, and that he literally tortured innocent children to concoct his fake results) feeding on the insecurities of parents who want someone to blame for their child being different rather than just accepting that sometimes that’s just how people do be.
It’s so obvious just looking at my family. We’re successful because of the neurodivergence more than anything.
But I always have to remind people, there is a darker reason behind the conservative outcry against autism though. We do not respect authority on the basis of authority alone. There has to be a valid reason. Holding a gun to my head probably won’t make me do what you demand, and if it does, you’ll shoot me anyway because I’ll be slow and complain the whole time vowing to take the steps to make you as miserable as you are making me.
For whatever reason, they cannot comprehend it. They lobotomized people over it. They executed people over it. They sterilized, they institutionalized. Everything for us has to have an answer to “why.” And it deeply offends them.
Ain’t that the fucking truth.
In a weird way autism may have partly spared me from a lot of mental trauma and issues. Growing up I went through a lot of things that tends to people having a lot of self doubt, anxiety, people pleasing tendencies, etc. I knew from a very young age though (maybe not as concretely as I do now) that what was happening to me wasn’t my fault. Like sure I knew I was a kid and that certain things about me were difficult, but it was very clear to me when the things adults did made no sense or were hypocritical. That’s not to say I didn’t end up with other issues like poor social skills, but that still seems a lot better than the previously mentioned options.
Also, I’m still wanting to know when I get all the taxes I paid back since we apparently aren’t ever supposed to be paying taxes.
It sure as fuck is, The Truth!
Hey hey, it is still possible that there are environmental factors that make the genetic causes more or less likely to result in full autism. Kennedy certainly hasn’t found any of those though.
A lot of the symptoms of that cluster are actually maladaptations. Our brains try and solve 1 problem, but create 2 more. In solving those, it makes even more. It’s part of the reason that they manifest so differently in different people.
They announced they’d be announcing this last spring. I’m just going to copypasta what I wrote on my Facebook at the time, because I was pretty happy with it to be honest
Humor me for a minute. Let’s pretend that HHS promised the cause of type I diabetes by September. This has been researched for years, and suddenly they’re going to have the cause pinpointed? And without knowing what that cause is (much less how or even if it could be prevented) they’re also promising to say how it could be prevented. Seems kinda unrealistic at best, yeah?
Now let’s go back to what’s actually being attempted: “finding” the cause of autism. Same thing, except it’s being lead by a guy who has been drinking the conspiracy-flavored Kool Aid for years. You would have a hard time convincing me that 1) after years of research, they will have a definitive and final cause in about 6 months, 2) this will be directed with the neutrality needed for proper research, and 3) of all the many many diseases we have in this country, autism just so happens to be the one that needs that immediate attention.
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Also illegal immigrants
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And not enough raw milk.
You misspelled chemtrails.
We could get some Vegas style betting odds going on this.
Vaccines, 2:1 (Best odds cuz this is just the de facto conspiracy theory for it) 5G signals, 4:1 Chemtrails, 8:1
Immigrants, 3:1 (gets a boost from being the big boogeyman of the admin currently) Wokeness, 20:1 (Seems too vague and nonspecific to be a valid choice, so long odds, but still giving it much better odds than the 10000:1 this one deserves, cuz honestly who knows what they’ll pull out of their asses with this.) Flouride, 12:1 (RFK has said some dumb things about Flouride before, but I’m not really expecting this one.) Antidepressants, 6:1 (He’s blamed them for the existence of school shootings, why not autism as well?) Pasteurization, 15:1 (Only drinking raw milk will keep the autism away!)Contrails are illegal now though
Disordered humors and curdled vapors, caused by the happiness of trans people.
Artificial colors.
Anything but genetics!
Genes come to in two types, the kind you wear and Simmons. -RFK jr. probably
The autistics yearn for the concentration camp - RFK probably
As a German, I appreciate the Americans taking the medal of cruelty away from us, but as a human being… what the fuck?
It’s actually Israel, but we’re ramping up!
Palestine.
Honestly the only reason Germany ever got the damned thing is because you guys went nuts post industrialization, otherwise it’s a question on if Britain or the USA would’ve kept it. Shit like Wounded Knee was in living memory until but a scant few decades ago, same thing with a bunch of the shit Britain pulled in India and South Africa.
