Welp, I guess it's time to relaunch our 2018 "Reproduction Causes Autism" t-shirt campaign—because anyone claiming otherwise is selling something, and/or holding a major US government position. Proceeds to benefit @autisticadvocacy.org. www.bonfire.com/reproduction... #autism #neurodiversity

Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach. To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat. And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

It's weird how Tylenol caused autism (first diagnosed in 1943) before it was even invented (1955). What a clever drug.

Trump, Kennedy say the data show that Tylenol use during pregnancy causes autism. It doesn't, but the PACER files show that the researcher whose data is fueling their conclusions was paid $150,000 to testify in a case against Tylenol. www.statnews.com/2025/09/23/r...

Cw filicide I think some reporters really need to learn about the Disabled Day of Mourning. Some parents of autistic kids despise them so much they kill them. This is how deadly ableism (and lack of social supports) can be. Our articles do not need to feed into ableism.

The White House tried to bury our community in BS. Stay centered & fight back: Say it loud: Tylenol does not cause autism, and leucovorin does not treat autism Advocate locally for better autism/disability services Connect with people who want to make lives better for autistic people & families

“The current administration has made its Big Autism Announcement, and it is big, all right: a big, easily predicted steaming pile of bullsh**.” Details on the garbled ableist mercenary pseudoscience from @ejwillingham.bsky.social, in the latest TPGA newsletter: buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...

Tracking media responses and treatment of this announcement for the next @thinkingautism.com newsletter and I think I’ve found the worst candidate so far Subscribe to see the good, the bad, and the ugliest buttondown.com/TPGA/archive/

Disregarding decades of scientific study by the best minds on the plant and instead proclaiming vitamin supplements (that you also just happen to sell) as a "cure" for a complex spectrum of conditions is the LEAST surprising news from a government composed of social media gym bro wellness grifters.

Fear-based narratives around autism don't protect autistic people they dehumanize us. When autism is framed as a tragedy, we are treated like tragedies. That hurts. It isolates. It kills. We need understanding, not fear.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

“The current administration has made its Big Autism Announcement, and it is big, all right: a big, easily predicted steaming pile of bullsh**.” Details on the garbled ableist mercenary pseudoscience from @ejwillingham.bsky.social, in the latest TPGA newsletter: buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...

As predicted: ableist AF &blaming vaccines, mitochondria, Tylenol&those who birth. Unsound basis, eg fraud study/v weak studies, incl 1 leucovorin trial FDA once *put on hold* that was terminated for investigator noncompliance. At the bottom? A pile of $$ awaits buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...

"The way society treats us changes our health. This means our health is changed by things like our race, being rich or poor, and gender. The MAHA Strategy does not talk about this. It makes us think they cannot make health policies that will work well." By ASAN: autisticadvocacy.org/2025/09/expl...

"If I mess up, forget an appointment, or can’t fit something into my day, I can say 'Oh well,' rather than 'I should…' This is self-forgiveness, self-acceptance, and self-compassion, which cultivates mental fitness and contributes to a physical sense of well-being too." -Wenn Lawson, at TPGA.

Great point

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

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"If I mess up, forget an appointment, or can’t fit something into my day, I can say 'Oh well,' rather than 'I should…' This is self-forgiveness, self-acceptance, and self-compassion, which cultivates mental fitness and contributes to a physical sense of well-being too." -Wenn Lawson, at TPGA.

“Don’t give in to the hopelessness of it all. That’s what they want. Progress is inevitable even when it feels out of reach, or like it is slipping away.” From autistic autism researcher @drmbothapsych.bsky.social, at TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2025/09/cher... #autism #neurodiversity #autistic

On that leucovorin-autism nonsense being pushed by the White House and HHS today: Our science editor @ejwillingham.bsky.social "fears promoting leucovorin as a treatment for autism is similar to how some touted ivermectin as a COVID-19 antidote." In @usatoday.com: www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...

Things today's White House autism announcement did not do: -Discuss strategies to increase supports and services for autistic people/families -Highlight why autistic people and families deserve respect, not pity or fear -Endorse one speck of autism research that is not dangerous pseudoscience

Shanah Tovah to all the homies out there. 🙏🏾

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

Steve Silberman is so pissed about this Tylenol bullshit that he's screaming from the afterlife he didn't even believe in. Increased rates of autism are due to testing, a broadened definition, and greater awareness. It's not vaccines. It's not Tylenol. It's like his work never happened.

"It feels to me like we've regressed so horribly and intentionally by the administration, because as they've demonstrated constantly, they have no interest in actual science." Yours truly on the monstrous autism disinfo coming out of the WH today, at @usatoday.com: www.usatoday.com/story/news/h...

Things today's White House autism announcement did not do: -Discuss strategies to increase supports and services for autistic people/families -Highlight why autistic people and families deserve respect, not pity or fear -Endorse one speck of autism research that is not dangerous pseudoscience

"People who received a different diagnosis or no diagnosis in prior generations now have an autism diagnosis, said Ari Ne’eman, an assistant professor of health policy and management at Harvard. "That’s not an epidemic—it’s better understanding of a disability that’s likely always existed."

On that leucovorin-autism nonsense being pushed by the White House and HHS today: Our science editor @ejwillingham.bsky.social "fears promoting leucovorin as a treatment for autism is similar to how some touted ivermectin as a COVID-19 antidote." In @usatoday.com: www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...

You talk about vaccines and Tylenol in a way that implies IF THEY DID cause autism, then it would be reasonable to avoid them.

Not really a fan of how most people talk about autism. Even those who support autistic people will act like it’s some disease to be avoided. Something we should be reducing the chances of. I think a lot of people do think that. Because they don’t view us as desirable.

Autism existed before Tylenol. That’s all you need to know.

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

I'm firmly on the side of autism in this war on autism.

On Trump, autism and tylenol: A student I was talking to today had it exactly right on this latest White House bullshit claim “It’s at the perfect intersection of hating disabled people and wanting women to be in pain” There’s not only no link, the claim is both ableist and misogynist.

&stated other findings were v likely bc of confounding. Also, pet studies of theirs done by guy whose COI is “expert witness for plaintiff…on matters of general causation involving acetaminophen use during pregnancy&its potential links to neurodevelopmental disorders” buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...

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.

Brian Deer called them "Wakefield mothers" web.archive.org/web/20180926...

Also, Acetaminophen does NOT cause autism, FFS. Instead of a legit link, what is likely happening is “Confounding” or “the possibility that some unknown factor common to needing pain relief in pregnancy and to having an autistic child makes them look directly linked.” Per @ejwillingham.bsky.social :

I wish that every time I saw someone write a post/thread like this that they also included the fact that there’s nothing wrong with being autistic and that’s part of the fear-mongering and harm.

hi, medical toxicologist that knows a lot about Tylenol here👋 Claiming that tylenol use in pregnancy causes autism is fearmongering here's what you need to know 🧵

Reminder: While autism diagnoses have indeed exploded over the years as we’ve dramatically expanded the parameters for diagnosis and educated professionals on what to look for, rates of Tylenol consumption during pregnancy hasn’t changed. Science doesn’t lie; people do.

I refuse to be told by a guy who has suggested all neurodivergent Individuals should be institutionalised, and another whose brain was eaten by a worm, that my being autistic is the problem, or a crisis. Autistic individuals aren't the problem, the way we are treated and minimised damn sure is.

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

Ahead of the Trump administration's "historic" announcement on autism today, remember, RFK Jr. knows startingly little about autism. In fact, his views amount to a "rabbit hole filled with pseudoscience about the condition, near complete ignorance about current research and basic facts."

TRUMP'S OWN CDC SAYS "There is no evidence of harm caused by the low doses of thimerosal in vaccines, except for minor reactions like redness and swelling at the injection site." www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...

Also Trump mentions how "I was told that's in California, where they have a, for some reason, a more severe problem." No. It's that California has a more robust screening system.

my heart is breaking for that poor boy they hauled into the oval office as a prop. forcing him to stand there while one person after another comes up and says no one like him should exist. this is child abuse.

They have moms of autistic kids at this presser and not autistic adults speaking. Very unsurprising.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.