Trump on autism

How old are you? I’m 61 and I was vaccinated for measles. Everyone I know around my age was. Families leapt on the vaccine because the disease was devastating.

If you have children, did you have them vaccinated?

Who does?

To be fair I think there is a correlation between being unable to cope in mainstream society (eg school) and Autism.
I sit on a PX Panel at a large school and the vast majority of DC that come in front of us have some form of ND.
I can see how an inability to Regulate could lead to them getting into trouble post school as well. Some ND people struggle with work too and others self medicate
All thes things could well lead to ending up in prison for SOME

From the abstract of your study:
"Conclusions
Increases could be due to growth in prevalence or, more likely, increased reporting and application of diagnosis. Rising diagnosis among adults, females and higher functioning individuals suggest augmented recognition underpins these changes."

It would, of course, be a very worrying trend if during that period everybody had been tested at age 5 and there was a 100% reliable diagnostic test. However, we only test people we think might be autistic and the criteria for diagnosis have widened. If you do more tests then you're going to diagnose more people.

The authors of the paper you linked suggest that the rise is likely due to "increased reporting and application of diagnosis" so we're seeing improved diagnosis, rather than a "horrific rise" in prevalence.

I thought he was great in congress.

Another one who is really interesting is Aaron Siri. So intelligent, focused on truth and speaking for the vaccine injured. These are very brave people. Going against the narrative can be quite dangerous.

The polio vaccine has an excellent safety record.

Wtf is right. Just when you think he can’t get any worse 🤦🏻‍♀️

I think he wants something from the company that makes Tylenol. And he's forcing their hand. He will half retract this after he's done whatever deal he was after. A bit like the tariffs: make it extreme, make it unsustainable, make them panic, and they will come and negotiate. In a couple of weeks we'll see someone from government saying that although there's a link, it's not a cause, and that they will continue to research it to "fight it back" and "completely get rid of it" and whatever nonsense he makes up. It will get buried in the pile of "we are right but also it depends" and "our own team has discovered other potential links as well and we'll update very very soon". I saw this morning a post on Threads with someone showing other statistics to proof how easy it was to match random items if you are cherry picking stats to make it look like they were connected. The post was about avocado on toast but also showed stats on use of Netflix, number of new breweries and other stuff that had stats overlapping the increase of ASD diagnoses to show how you could basically use random data to make these claims.

Given that where Trump clears the path, others follow, what are people thoughts about when this happens in the UK ?

Or, to put it another way, who here can believe the man on the right saying anything other than "You know what Don ? You're pretty much right about everything."

A rise in the number of diagnoses.
Does not necessarily mean a rise in the number of people with autism.

It's the same with ADHD. I am definitely on a spectrum of some sorts, without doubt, but I still hold down two jobs, look after my son and make the best of things.

With low level autism and ADHD you're basically giving someone a "get out of life free" card.

Look how often it get's used as an excuse on MN "I got accused of racism but I have adhd" being one of the more memorable recent ones.

Have you watched his congressional testimony? A lot of it would seem to refute the encyclopaedic memory assertion.

I find him extremely intelligent and coherent. You honestly think he isn't intelligent? Wow. He has an encyclopaedic memory, for one. And you don't win court cases against some of the biggest companies in the world with low intelligence.

My repetition is just me answering everyone's questions and responding to their arguments against me.

If you watch the video of Trump's announcement, he comes across the drug name (acetaminophen) as though he's never seen it before, and has to ask for advice on how to pronounce it.
Possibly not someone we should be crediting with having a great deal of understanding of the drug or anything to do with it, if even the name of it is new information.

The video does make you wonder if someone has added the name to the speech just to highlight that he hasn't a clue what he's spouting off about.

Kamala Harris was not a legitimate nominee. She was only there as the power hungry Biden had pulled out late, too late to have primaries for a Democratic nominee. Harris was unelectable, that's why Trump "won" (inverted commas as he has nothing to win as it wasn't a contest.)

Harris came 16th in the 2020 primaries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries#Withdrew_during_the_primaries

She was devoid of any substance.

Biden made her VP as her being 1.younger 2.female 3.black it contrasted with him, an old white man, thus together they could represent a wider demographic for an election to pull in more votes.

Biden's selfishness by not leaving early enough to have a 2024 vote for the Democratic nominee effectively ensured Trump would get reelected as he didn't have an opponent.

Yes racism (especially among the right) is rampant in america (in its first election only white men of property could vote, at the same time in Britain only men of property could vote (no barrier was put on race hence Ignatius Sancho voted in the 1774 and 1780 British general elections), but race is not the reason Harris did not get elected. She was a shocking nominee, an ilegitimate one, who was fast tracked due to a selfish act.

@ColdSalads what about when a child is diagnosed and whilst going through the assessments many parents go 'ooh if I did that questionnaire I would probably answer the questions the same' or grandad is very similar, or Uncle Bob or Auntie Susan. None of those relatives were diagnosed as a child but probably would be now. Many adults are in fact going for late diagnosis, as they can now see why they have struggled to fit into society.

They won't though bc they are too scared of him.

He is behaving like a dictator and no-one seems to care.

Are you making a correlation between autism and ending up in prison?

Kimmel really isn't a good guy, FFS. Just do some brief research on the utter goon.

@Hellohelga school can be a much noisier, over stimulating environment than it used to be. Colourful displays, group work, noisier classrooms, no separate desks. The way lessons are taught. Curriculum overload.

Did those children who were 'slow' get exams, achieve their full potential, or were they just left to get on with it? The meltdown children probably didn't make it to mainstream, either special school (when there more of them) or no school.

The man's a Buffoon, he thought covid could be cured by injecting bleach
I honestly don't know why people are taking any notice of him.

"Autism is a condition in a state of slow flux. In 2021, a study found a 787% rise in the number of diagnoses between 1998 and 2018 in the UK"

Shouldn't we all be screaming and demanding a real answer to the horrific rise in autism?

Why aren't we?