"When ICE grabbed Rodney, he was in the process of receiving new prosthetic legs. The detention centre is refusing to let him have a day pass to go get them, so his health is declining."

"In autistic people, as in every member of the human species, God is pleased to dwell." sojo.net/articles/opi...

It is hard to put into words how this past week basically erased a decade’s worth of work to promote of acceptance of #ActuallyAutistic people and accommodate autism. But somehow Trump did more to promote fear and lies around autism than any other president. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

weeping when i think of all the trains we could have built

Returning to a subject I was discussing this morning on X, I think a single video like this does more to radicalize people against ICE than any loaded rhetoric any politician has ever used, and DHS should think very hard about the consequences of supporting this kind of behavior from its agents.

when autistic people talk about research that will actually help to improve autistic people's quality of life, this is the kind of thing we mean. this is a neat study.

This is bonkers. FDA is going to change leucovorin's label based on a lit review with data on 40 patients w/ cerebral folate deficiency and comparisons to "known natural history." www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/f...

Our current admin hates disabled people 🌈 www.afge.org/article/cdc-...

the Exsultet. It is desirable

In medicine, “cause” always predicates the idea of prevention or cure. I think we need to be clear: what “causes” autism is irrelevant, because autism is something which neither needs to be prevented nor cured.

i guess the difficulty for the article authors was just that it is a very early tablet from before tablet makers moved away from the clamshell design

see how settled science suddenly gets turned into something unclear as soon as conservatives make it a political issue? this has happened on dozens of issues.

politico has now edited their story to eliminate references to “the autism problem” and deleted their bsky post about it someone got caught

politico casually using genocidal terminology to describe people on the spectrum

politico thinks it is fair game to talk about "the autism problem." absolutely disgusting, dehumanizing framing. they would rather children die than be autistic.

i do not often use the phrase "comically inept" but if you are the envoy to an arab-majority country you should probably be aware of a little word called "islam"

“The long history of trying to ‘cure’ or eliminate autism has been a history of terrible abuse and dangerous sham treatments." I spoke to @autisticadvocacy.org's Greg Robinson and @drstevenkapp.bsky.social about the awful autism presser yesterday. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“When parents say, ‘I wish my child did not have autism,’ what they’re really saying is, ‘I wish the autistic child I have did not exist, and I had a different (non-autistic) child instead.’”

i continue to insist that the appeal of llm-based "ai" for a lot of people is that it can take tedious tasks that must be performed and simply make them someone else's problem

right down to casting increasing rates of identification as a crisis

Autism does not need to be cured Ableism does The end

The thing is, being autistic doesn't need to be "stopped" or "cured" or further demonized. The entire conversation is wrong.

given the press conference that the president and rfk seemed to engineer to do maximum harm, i thought i might re-up this piece i wrote a few months back: bit.ly/autisticimago

we should be very blunt and call RFK Jr. what he is—a eugenicist who does actually believe that certain kinds of people are “undesirables” who should be eradicated from the population at any cost

Almost endless list of harmed populations from this announcement: pregnant people, autistic people, children affected by avoidable infectious disease, people who actually need leucovorin for medically established reasons, just about everyone really. Just this cabal causing so much avoidable harm

I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

It is really disheartening to see the men who are in charge of science and healthcare in the United States stand before us all and spew misinformation about autism. To claim that genetic background isn’t the overwhelming contributor to autism is egregious.

Do you understand that a huge portion of the wellness podcaster and influencer community is now going to be paid to push folic acid as a treatment for autism despite no actual evidence for it. This is a windfall for the supplements industry. It's all a grift.

Trump is calling autism “out of control” No… Autism stigma is out of control Ableism is out of control Inaccessibility to basic healthcare and support is out of control

Many studies have shown that there is no relationship between MMR vaccine and the development of autism. Here are two of the best. This one followed every single child born in Denmark from 1991 through 1998 (n=537,303). There was no association.

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

neurodiversity is Good Actually. just want to say that

I feel like we’ve lost over a decade of progress around reporting on autism in just the last six months. It’s depressing.

Tylenol use in pregnancy does not cause autism. Blaming mothers allows politicians to punish distressed children & families instead of implementing compassionate systemic adjustments. God made autistic folks in His image, to belong in society, with full dignity, rights & freedom.

I hate that we exist in a timeline where those in power insist on debating facts as though they’re opinions. Tylenol in pregnancy doesn’t cause autism. If RFK Jr continues to claim otherwise, it’s just a way to shame mothers and vilify people with autism. He must resign.

Here’s a rundown on what the administration has hinted so far— we will have to see if it’s this, something else, or both. Regardless, it will assuredly be ableist, eugenicist, harmful bullshit. But I’d keep an eye on the burgeoning alt-med Big Mitochondria industry buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...

Before you share the “new cause” of #autism tomorrow, what are you doing to actually help the autistic community today?

So much taxpayer money "is being quietly handed over in a desperate, continuing, endless quest by Kennedy to destroy one of the greatest public health successes in human history just so he find some way to keep autistic people from existing." @ejwillingham.bsky.social in the latest TPGA newsletter:

I am autistic and everybody in real life IS SO LOUD 😭

this exists it is called thinking

this just in: next week is going to suck

I find it deeply disconcerting the way they keep “teasing” the big info they have on autism. If there was a real scientific breakthrough, they wouldn’t wait. This isn’t about science, it’s about discriminating against neurodivergent people. It’s eugenics.

VIRTUE ETHICS WINS AGAIN

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

just want to say that matthew 5.33-37 is an autistic banger

Because I love you and care for your soul's eternal welfare, I'm going to go ahead and share this excerpt from a Holy Cross Day sermon by the one and only Katherine Sonderegger, just published in the latest VTS Journal. ⚓

it is holy cross day, which means it is the time of year when i would like to share a story: bit.ly/onholycrossday

Tylenol/autism stuff is bad for many reasons, but it will be used to push the idea that pregnant people shouldn't have pain relief. Women's pain is already dismissed.