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[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 days ago (6 children)

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/

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

what do decades of progress in the autism community look like- genuine question.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Standard "treatments" moving away from what would be referred to in most other contexts as abuse. Seriously, it's messed up what they used to do.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

autistic people have a community and share skills / strategies / ways to compensate / ways to communicate their needs without feeling or being treated like inferior beings

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That’s the plan! Roll it back to 1900

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"When Men were Men, and Women knew their rightful place in the kitchen!"

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

What a crappy headline!! "WOULD set back"?!?!

As if there was any doubt he will set back that progress.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do y'all remember when "HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy" would have been a punchline?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Now he's Surgeon Brigadier General Brain Worm

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Trump would never give him a more distinguished title

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

(that's why i gave him a field demotion)

[–] [email protected] 100 points 2 days ago

Yep. And those fears are founded.

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