Neurodivergence is a newer term meant to encompass differences once known as Asperger’s syndrome and/or autism spectrum disorder. The term is somewhat controversial among advocacy groups and autistic individuals. However, the widespread adoption of the term has accomplished what advocates set out to do—destigmatize what they view as simply another human variation. Neurological differences are now thought of more in terms of immutable qualities, like ethnicity or race; the neurodivergent person is another instance of differences in the rich tapestry of humanity rather than a disability or mental disorder.
Does neurodiversity also include ADHD? I see many ADHD children (although, to be sure, at a lesser rate than ASD children) going down the trans route, too.
Thank you for your story. I have a beautiful, smart granddaughter who has been diagnosed with autism and you explained “her world” to me. I will share your writing with my daughter as the need to protect her is even more evident now because of the gender-cult offering a solution when in fact it is erasing and destroying these precious autistic children.
Maybe consider STOPPING the constant, nauseating practice of applying LABELS to everyone and everything, everywhere? It's exhausting and frankly puerile.
There is a growing cadre of children who are completely unvaccinated. Has anyone thought to do a study of how many of these children have autism? Sure would be interesting to know. But I don't think that study will ever be done; it would be too revealing.
I don't think you are threatening anyone . . . most people aren't listening to you . . . Hospitalizations and treatment for vaccine preventable illness are way more lucrative that the vaccines . . . Easier to fool a person than to convince him he's been fooled . . . babies and toddlers change very quickly . . . given that babies get shots every two months or so, any change significant change is likely to happen within a short time of getting a vaccine . . . I think doctors are mis-educated in many ways, and a small percentage are straight-up crooks, as in any profession, but to insinuate that they are lying about vaccine safety? That they won't say that vaccines cause autism unless they are extraordinarily honest? That just beggars belief (that you would actually think almost all peds are liars), especially since the doctors don't make huge amounts of money off the vaccines - that's the pharmaceutical industry. Re: your antidepressant - doctors gaslight patients on psych meds all the time - that's not what's causing your symptoms, you just need more! Hell, I had a doctor tell me Benadryl can't cause a racing heart. Weird, that you have a psychiatrist who doesn't gaslight you but you think most pediatricians are crooks. No, people aren't mad at you for threatening to cost the crooks money, people are mad at you for trying to entice other parents not to prevent serious illness in their children. I'm not mad at you, but I'm glad you've exposed more of your thinking process to assist people in evaluating whether they can trust your conclusions.
Doctors make their money off vaccine injuries just as pHarma does. In fact, doctors get bonuses and perks for vaccinating certain percentages of their patient population. Vaccine injuries and deaths are real, not rare.
It's quite possible that exposure to anti-depressants in utero is a more viable cause of this effect. The push to get on anti-depressants started in the early 90s. A friend who took them while pregnant gave birth to a boy with an inverted penis that as a grown male is very small and the cause of much distress. I saw this correlation and have been on the lookout and in Vogue about ten years ago there was an article on the correlation between male babies born with penile deformities to mothers on anti-depressants.
There may be some validity to your thoughts. Not antidepressants but perhaps environmental contaminates. The 90s was when more and more beverages and foods began to be sold in plastic containers. My youngest daughter and I are both neurodivergent. I did not take antidepressants while pregnant with my daughter and my mother didn’t take antidepressants when pregnant with me. What we possibly have in common, if the theory of plastic containers leaching toxins into what we consume could ever be proven, exposure to environmental contaminants while in utero. I was conceived in 1976 when my family lived in military housing on Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. Throughout my mother’s entire pregnancy I was exposed to contaminated drinking water. Out of my 3 children it was my youngest in which I would have consumed the most prepackaged in plastic food and drink since I was working full time as a receptionist as opposed to being home most of the time like I was with my other 2 and therefore not consuming prepackaged food and drink as frequently, if at all.
Interesting. One study says it doubles the odds. Also, maternal autoimmune disease seems to increase risk, and severity. I hadn't heard of the inverted penis problem. Poor kids!
Thank you for sharing, you make a very valid and important point. I would add, though, that this is not just about individual psychology. I know from my own son, that a huge part of the problem is physical too. He doesn't like being touched, he wears loose-fitting clothes, he can't abide the sound of other people eating, and so on. These physical aversions meant he totally freaked out when he hit puberty. The fact that gender ideology seemed to offer a way out, was, in part, because it seemed to offer a way out of all the physical discomfort he was experiencing. The ideas and concepts of gender ideology seem to simply be a justification after the fact. Doesn't make it any less pernicious, but I believe the physical is at least as important as the psychological.
As a clinician treating trans identifying youth I can say without hesitation that “gender dysphoria” and the need to transition is almost always coupled with neurodivergence. This is the case in 100% of my caseload, males and females alike. The main difference is that the boys usually get evaluated and diagnosed at a young age while the girls do not.
That is an interesting observation. Would you say schizophrenia and autism are similar neurodivergences with some overlap? Changing identity used to be a defining characteristic of schizophrenics. Now being transgender is the new schizophrenia with a new name. People uncomfortable with themselves find an escape in many ways. Wanting to avoid puberty is a common desire for those on the autistic spectrum. My brother is just recovering from life threatening neuroleptic syndrome caused by medication for schizophrenia. I think he is really on the autistic spectrum and for the past thirty years has been a “Guinea pig” as doctors tried to make him conform. I love him the way he was, unmedicated. It is evil the way psychiatrists feel pressured to medicate (in case he is dangerous unmedicated). My brother is a very gentle soul.
He went through puberty before transgenderism was popularised. In those days people such as him were put in psychiatric hospitals and heavily medicated. Now they are given cross sex hormones. I wonder which is worse. We live in a less than perfect world.
Wonderful piece, so brilliantly argued and rings so true. I've struggled to mentally articulate these very points as regards my own trans-identified autistic kid and it's vindicating to see them clarified in so cogent an essay. Unfortunately, the way this thing is being framed by the very groups supposed to advocate for our neurodivergent kids, is that an attraction to trans is somehow innate to the condition, part of the insidious 'true selves' argument. For example, I've written multiple times to the National Autistic Society asking them to include, for example, detransitioner accounts on their gender identity page, receiving no acknowledgment of these letters. Well done for bringing this to the light.
The National Autistic Society in the UK started promoting transgenderism more than ten years ago. There was a front page article about an autistic man becoming a woman.
Also the male brain theory of autism might have seemed a reason for girls to think they were “born in the wrong body”.
Yes, Baron-Cohen's theory was taken up by the mainstreaam, and meanwhile autistic girls went under-diagnosed for decades, partly due to better masking skills but probably mainly due to the inherent misogny of the field, in that they were always viewed as some sort of exception to the rule...
Inherent misogyny in the mental health field? Wherein about 73% of the therapists are women and women are more likely to seek and receive treatment even though men are two to four times more likely to commit suicide and also more likely to die of drug overdoses? And the American Psychological Association describes much masculinity as "toxic"? I'm not arguing with your assessment, I'm just curious what you're referring to. I'm not impressed with the state of psychology with regard to its treatment of women or men, but I am more concerned with the state of men's mental health, given the statistics, and, while I'm not sure how many people are actually helped by mental health care, I would hope it helps some people, and I find it more concerning the extent of unmet men's mental health care needs.
Yes, the (mental) health field is utterly misogynistic, in almost every aspect. That has nothing to do with the fact that there are many women working in it. There is a painful gender bias about almost every condition which leads to lesser mental care for men, that's correct, and forms of care for "invented" conditions for women (e.g. menopause is not a health condition). These are only 2 examples of an entire iceberg. To understand this bias, we have to look into the history of (Western) medicine in general, and mental health care in particular. But please be warned: it's quite the horror story.
When my daughter was eventually diagnosed aged 16, teachers where reluctant to believe her diagnosis as her masking skills were superb. Those same skills are used now to act the part of a man. I could foresee she would be an actress but never imagined her as an actor.
With my daughter it's a similar story, she was only diagnosed at 16 as well and had slipped through the net at school with no one picking up on her difficulties. I think that it's often the case that if a child isn't disruptive or displaying challenging behaviour, the Sencos don't bother to explore the reasons for social isolation/poor academic performance, etc. They often don't even bother to produce an IEP for the child without vocal interventions by parents...
My experience also. My eldest displayed disruptive behaviour, enabling her to be excluded from school aged 5 years. She was given support to enable her to return to mainstream school. The youngest was so quiet nobody noticed her difficulties until she “shut down” and I discovered she had been self harming aged 14
Yet the head teacher of her primary school had written on her school report when she was five that she had mild Aspergers. Going through CAMHS was a nightmare.
Yes, me too, my eldest also got into trouble early on and he was diagnosed aged 7, whereas my youngest is extremely shy and socially anxious, also started self-harming in her early teens at which point finally people realised there may be a problem... CAMHS are an absolute nightmare, totally captured. We ended up going private.
Yes, true and well said too. Our neurodivergent family members are being sterilised because their differences are not valued. This is discrimination and is unjust. Autistic people were institutionalised only a few decades ago. This is no longer popular. Now the treatment offered is gender change and acceptance within society, legally enforced. Insanity has been normalised. As I question this eugenics movement I am excluded from “normal” society.
As a late diagnosed autistic (and lesbian) woman, this article and a few of the comments really touched on a few points for me. I received my diagnosis 2 years ago, at the age of 54, and it changed my life.
Here are a few things I feel the need to say.
1. Vaccines do not cause autism.
I am a huge believer in science and medicine. However, I know that science and medicine have been corrupted by capitalist and political interest. I believe in what is called “informed consent” – but, in contrary to how things might seem in 2023, this is as difficult as it has been ever, maybe even more, due to tampered and corrupted information. Vaccines are a huge issue, but they do not cause autism. But maybe they have different (stronger) impact on our brains, that is something I can very well imagine.
2. Terminology.
I do use the terminology of neurodivergence, however, I also see the shortcomings of it. One being that, should autism not be seen as a discapacity anymore on an official level, a lot of support for many families would just drop away, leaving individuals and parents of young and older children who need much support in pure dispair. It’s a bit like trying to put a race horse and a tiny shetland pony into the same game category, with the same riders, diet, workout, climate… both are horses but completely different. This metaphor only describes the 2 far ends of autism, and there is so much colour variation in between.
What I once again noticed though, reading the article and some of the comments, is that there are countless different levels and facettes and nuances to autism and other neurodiverse conditions. Yes, it’s truly diverse!
3. Autism and empathy, and other prejudices.
There are a lot more highly empathetic autistic people than society is aware of – we just all too often are plainly overwhelmed and don’t know what to say, how to react… because so often what we say is perceived in the wrong way, especially when it’s about vulnerable things and moments. It took me until my early 50s (a few years before I suspected actual autism, until then I always only just knew that “I’m too different") that it is perfectly okay NOT to say anything, when someone shares vulnerable emotions. As for other situations… yes, many of us can relate and feel empathy. What I think could be a challenge though when it comes to social dishonesty, as part of the social game, especially the flirting game, among (young) adults. I can say about myself that to this very day I will notice this “Huh? Something’s off…? Why he/she doing/saying this?” moment, meaning, when someone might be “playing”… but I can’t catch up.
And also, I don’t understand it. I don’t understand WHY it has to be done like this. And I could imagine that a lot of other autistic people feel similarly and sort of “remove themselves” mentally/emotionally, which of course by the peers would be perceived as something negative and lack of empathy. In my case it always was like this.
As for me, together with autism I have also been given a high amount of intelligence, intellectual as well as emotional. This proved all my life as equally a blessing and a curse. It enabled me to “counteract” the “missing pages in the manual”, but of course this came at a price. Not only took this a huge toll on my mental health, but also on my academic performance (the mental power to do what could have been possible with the intellectual capacity went to a large degree into this counteracting). Also, socially. I could act brilliantly – on some days, and on others barely, and when the same people experienced this difference, they sometimes made fun of me, teased me or downright forced me to be my “highly functional” act. I never was aware that I was “acting” – but all my life I was VERY aware that I am totally different, and that most people did not like that at all (not to mention the utter exhaustion of making myself “fit in”).
4. Gender dysphoria.
I had that. Big time. Of course!! You grow up in a world where, for instance, one of your special interests is ancient mythology, from Greek to Egyptian to anything you find in one of the 3 public libraries of your little home town. And everywhere it’s about men, men and boys, they are strong, valiant, heroic… and the women do the dishes. And if they don’t do the dishes, they have alabaster skin and tender breasts and seductive deep eyes and wet red lips… I did not have that. I had never seen that on anyone. And later, girls were “hot chicks” on motorcycles. If anything, I wanted the motorcycle and not the red bikini and certainly not kissing the bearded idiot grinning on the ad. Later I was into mountain bikes, and I remember, already in the 2000s, Cannondale had an ad in a MTB magazine that enfuriated women on both sides of the Atlantic.
Of course girls and young women don’t want that. Not just because it is so degrading, but also, yes, we KNOW that we’re different, we DO feel like aliens abandoned on this planet…
And nowadays it’s the hype to be trans. “Oh, I’m not wrong – my body is wrong. And that’s easy. Just a few hormones and a few cuts.” Just the other day I read on the FB page of an autistic woman in the UK, grown-up woman in her 40s, with wife and kids, talking about taking hormones and transitioning as if it just were another form of clothing style.
So, as much as it pains me, here I have to say: the article is right about this. Autistic people are an easy target. Not only the youth. Sometimes I look around on IG and FB for autism, and the amount of mostly young autistic females identifying as trans makes me want to scream.
So, in this light I can see where you are coming from about the terminology… you certainly have a point. Now I understand why the other day (on a Spanish publications in FB and IG) some people reacted really aggressively about the post being about neurodivergence and the educational info.
The bottom line, I guess, may be this: if we “re-categorize” autism and don’t classify it as a discapacity anymore, but “just another form of brain”, A LOT of individuals and families will be thrown into economic and health care jeopardy.
Such a change of approach can only come TOGETHER with a different approach to health, mental and physical, and well-being.
Also, it will put US autistic people again under the pressure of “playing along” – now that it’s not a negative thing anymore, and this happens very quickly and very easily, even with good and trusted friends. In certain ways and for some reasons, neurotypicals often have the tendency to push through with their own interests, thinking “it’s not that bad”, “come on, you’re fine!” and like that. And we autistic and otherwise neurodiverse people have the tendency to give in. They (the neurotypical friends and family) believe they know what’s good (for us) – and we believe them.
Which is a form of empathy (double empathy).
Which is also where that situation comes in, that one person describes in the comments: the sex offender gone trans and then housed in a female prison in a cell with a developmentally disabled female that he abused the whole time. I can see this happen to myself: if the person doesn’t apply brute violence but subtle “sweet talk” and manipulation… I couldn’t say that I’d not give in. Whether I’d like it or not, and I would realize that only weeks or months later. And no high IQ can protect me from that because it’s a processing thing in the brain, connected to the emotions.
And that in itself is nearly impossible to get others, i.e. neurotypicals to understand.
But it’s a thing.
Please allow me here to refer to the LGB Alliance US: they have monthly Zoom meetings for various groups, also neurodiverse lesbian, gay and bisexual women and men, and also they have a group for gender dysphoria. That one is very strict and moderated tightly. At the moment I don’t know if there’s a special “chapter” for the youth… but that could be worth discussing with them.
I really don’t know how we can protect the gay and lesbian (and bi) autistic kids… I am talking about this with my doctor all the time, she is fully on my page (against gender ideology). It’s one autistic kid at a time, I guess…
thank you so much for the comments. Excellent insights. I'm the author of the essay. I'm agnostic on what terminology is used to describe or label this population. I can see advantages/disadvantages to using various descriptors. I chose to focus on the diverse aspect or neurodiverse because of trying to make the point about different brains. And different ways of coping with the world. I adore my "neurodivergent" son just as he is. And want him to exist wholly and intact in our world. And likewise all other autistic individuals. As far as the empathy thing. My son is deeply caring and concerned for others. Almost too much at times. He just doesn't know how to express it in what would be considered socially acceptable ways. Or at least it is not intuitive. But he can learn such things. Neurotypicals have to learn such things as well. But how can a young person learn social skills, and interpersonal skills in general, when you are spending all your time pretending to be something you're not?
So well written, thank you. Schools in the US (and maybe other places as well) generally only teach to the middle. I remember early in my training reading the book, 'All Kinds of Minds" and I truly believe there are all kinds of minds. I tried so hard to give my son a good life and keep him from being labeled knowing full well he had a different kind of mind. He did well in school both academically and socially, he talked about being 'bi" and that has always been accepted in our family. He was love and supported and had access to good therapy to learn more about himself. It wasn't until he left home and was in college and started to fall down the rabbithole that is the internet that he seemed to want to cloak himself in diagnoses. It is so sad actually as he was just lovely as himself and we adored him and we miss him very much. It was his decision to cut us off and run off with the circus.
I am so, so sorry about this!! Hopefully he will be able to make the round with as little bruises as possible and find his way back to love and support. 🙏🏼❤️
Vaccines absolutely cause autism. 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 30 in the US, something has to be causing that. Dr Christopher Exley has demonstrated the high levels of aluminium in autistic brains, specifically the glial and microglial cells. Aluminium is a neurotoxin. He found aluminium levels that were extraordinarily high in a 15 year old - no time for slow lifelong exposure such as he observed in Alzheimer's disease. Where did that aluminium come from? the most plausible candidate is aluminium adjuvants in vaccination. Since 1986 vaccine act removed liability the amount of vaccines has massively increased, meaning more injection of aluminium. At the same time autism skyrockets. (Of course there can be other mechanisms of injury that aren't aluminium but the case for aluminium's involvement is strong).
The neurodiversity narrative is problematic because it glamourises our sh*t lives, makes it out that have severe anxiety, sensory issues etc are great and make you special and ~unique~. Really the whole ~uwu~ aspect of neurodiversity fuels the trans cult as well. The trivialization of severe issues and glamourisation of such is really the same on the trans cult and the neurodiversity cult. They are basically the same thing. They both glamourise Pharma and you aren't able to question them. It also completely ignores those with severe autism non verbal with seizures, etc. neurodiversity just ignores their suffering & pretends autism is ~uwu being a bit quirky and having 10 PhDs like Sheldon Cooper~.
I think the term needs to be thrown in the garbage. And every time I see people using it I will be opposing it.
FALSE. Vaccines DO NOT cause autism. THERE IS NO CAUSE FOR AUTISM, other than a genetic predisposition, and that also is not yet fully understood. Please stop spreading this complete nonsense! There's just better ways of "detecting" autism and other forms of neurodivergence nowadays. And because *you* have a "sh*t" life, I would recommend not to suggest that every other neurodiverse person also must have such. Thank you.
I'm not going to be silent because you tell me to shut up. Why are you so angry at the idea that vaccines cause autism? why lashing out & not even considering the explanation I laid out for you, backed up by science?
Sensory issues, gastroenterological issues, anxiety, communication issues, are INHERENT parts of autism and are INHERENTLY miserable.
The reason people get angry when people say vaccines cause autism is because it can cause people not to vaccinate their children, leading to a lot of avoidable premature death and disability. Unfortunately, the medical profession is such that sometimes a person can't help but notice that sometimes the "expert" opinion is simply wrong. I spent hours and hours researching the vaccine/autism connection when I was pregnant with my first born, and I found a lot of dishonesty in the anti-vaccine camp (ex. "polio deaths dropped a lot before the polio vaccine" - well, yeah, cause the iron lung was invented and widely used - who wants to put their kids through that??), and I printed out two maps of the US, one showing vaccine compliance by state, and the other showing autism rates by state: I found no correlation between the two, but I did find that wealthier states diagnosed more autism, which could be because wealthier parents take their kids to the doctor more often to seek out diagnoses and wealthier governments provide more services, and because there are more older fathers, as well as more engineering-type men and women marrying each other. The characteristics that are now diagnosed as autism is much broader than before, which is why, I believe, the numbers have sky-rocketed. I talked to two older pediatricians about what they'd noticed, insofar as more kids getting autism with more vaccines being added to the schedule, and they both told me that they haven't noticed more autism per se, but kids who used to be diagnosed with mental retardation are now diagnosed with autism, and many fewer children in their practices are becoming deaf, blind, or having intellectual disabilities stemming from infections that are now vaccine-preventable. I totally get not trusting doctors, because I don't trust doctors or the government as a matter of course based on my own experiences, but I also get why people get angry when you say that vaccines cause autism, and while I wouldn't want to give a child the covid shot or the flu shot, I generally think vaccines are one of the greatest inventions ever and I wish more people felt safe vaccinating their kids.
"Vaccination is essentially trying to ‘hack’ this extremely complex system through the extremely crude method of antigen and adjuvant injection. Vaccination sees the natural immune system as ‘insert A = get B’ or ‘insert needle = get antibodies = protection against disease’. The complex cascades of multiple interlinking factors are not present in this equation. Nor are factors such as route of exposure, and that injection of a dead/attenuated pathogen is a fundamentally different mechanism to the natural exposure which would be through, for example, aerosol. And here I am talking only of what we know or can surmise, because there is a large number of things about the immune response that we probably do not know."
Of course paediatricians are not going to say vaccines cause autism, unless they are extraordinarily honest. It's them doing the injecting. So they would have to acknowledge that they caused lifelong debility in their patients, which is very unlikely to happen unless the individual is able to be extremely honest with themselves about their own guilt, which most people cannot be. Someone else posted the Upton Sinclair quote here. Very very true.
1 in 10,000 to 1 in 30 cannot be explained by any other factor other than there is more autism. It is an Exponential increase over 50 years. That cannot be explained by pissing about with definitions. Nor can a multitude of other factors such as
1) the high level of neurotoxin aluminium in the brain of people who died with autism diagnosis
2) parental testimony of children regressing immediately after a vaccine. I had an atrocious reaction to Mirtazapine. I started feeling like shit within an hour of taking it. No one would gaslight me and say 'it wasn't the mirtazapine', but when a child clearly regresses within 24h of a vaccine, it's ok to gaslight a parent and say it wasn't the vaccine? How do you explain these parental testimonies? They're all liars?
3) The CDC vaccine court has paid out for autism cases. why if vaccines causing autism is impossible? Sure they play word games on this but they've paid out.
4) the Fraud in the CDC MMR-autism study as revealed by Dr. William Thompson. if MMR has no relation to autism, fraud in that study would have been unnecessary.
People get angry for a number of reasons about me speaking out about vaccines:
1) I'm an autist myself so I don't fit their spangly ~neurodiversity autism is wonderful uwu~ narrative and refuse to play along with it which makes them angry. They don't want to realise they have been vaccine-injured themselves because it is very painful to realise they took your whole future and personality and chucked it in the trash when you were 1 year old and you had no choice. So you have to go into denial and viciously attack the person pointing this out.
2) They are making money out of vaccines & I threaten the grift
3) They are making money out of selling 'neurodiversity' or other aspects of the autism industry and I threaten the grift
3) they are fully indoctrinated into the vaccine cult & I threaten their ideology
I'm neither angry nor did I tell you to "shut up". And this: "Sensory issues, gastroenterological issues, anxiety, communication issues, are INHERENT parts of autism and are INHERENTLY miserable." is simply not correct. Many autistic people have some of these, but not all, and not always to the same extent. What you are talking about is not only outdated "science", it actually never was science. Thank you.
Well you went all caps on me and told me to 'stop spreading this complete nonsense'. Sounds like anger and telling me to shut up, to me. Being as I'm not going to change my views.
You have to have communication issues or you're not autistic, literally, if you can communicate normally no one is going to call you bloody autistic!
DSM 5: Persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts, as manifested by the following, currently or by history 3 out of 3 criteria must be met. so you HAVE to have social deficits to be autistic.
I never said they were all to a severe extent, you made that bit up, obviously that isn't true. I only have relatively mild gastroenterological issues for example. But I do have all of those. Even if you want to say that autists have only some of them, that's still INHERENT misery in autism.
My son has never been diagnosed. He academically always did very well. He had a select group of friends. As an educator I didn’t feel it was necessary. I saw no benefit to him. I also always believed that we all are unique and many of us have quirks. This makes the world a more interesting place. Never did I think a danger and predictors were waiting for kids just like him.
Helping to make neurodiverse/autistic men and women sterile is discriminatory, full stop. Not only that, by starting the process at younger and younger ages, the likelihood that they will be able to experience adequate sexual function or pleasure as adults, or even be able to form healthy dating relationships, is greatly reduced. Simply put, they are being preyed upon.
Furthermore, as a follow up, I have a teen daughter who has Down Syndrome, and I have battled for her inclusion in a society that thinks it is ok to screen her out before birth. I am well aware of the eugenics movement as I see it happening in her peer group. For every child with DS that we see, there are far more that weren’t given the chance to live.
Parents of neurodiverse children and teens better start fighting hard for their own kiddos before big pharma and big tech grabs them first to aid them in self mutilation and destruction.
I always thought about what would happen if there was a pre-natal screening for ASD; sadly, it is happening after they are born with this transgender agenda. It’s frightening and people have to wake up.
Does neurodiversity also include ADHD? I see many ADHD children (although, to be sure, at a lesser rate than ASD children) going down the trans route, too.
Thank you for your story. I have a beautiful, smart granddaughter who has been diagnosed with autism and you explained “her world” to me. I will share your writing with my daughter as the need to protect her is even more evident now because of the gender-cult offering a solution when in fact it is erasing and destroying these precious autistic children.
Great post. Here’s an article that really informed me that touches on a lot of these same topics but from a different perspective...
https://open.substack.com/pub/bprice/p/trans-is-something-we-made-up?r=k7m1r&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Maybe consider STOPPING the constant, nauseating practice of applying LABELS to everyone and everything, everywhere? It's exhausting and frankly puerile.
There is a growing cadre of children who are completely unvaccinated. Has anyone thought to do a study of how many of these children have autism? Sure would be interesting to know. But I don't think that study will ever be done; it would be too revealing.
Dr. Paul Thomas and James Lyons-Weiler PhD did a vaxxed-unvaxxed study. https://ipaknowledge.org/ipak-vaxxed-v-unvaxxed-study.php
Thank you for writing this. I am guessing you are the parent of such a child, for you to get to the heart of this tangle so well.
I don't think you are threatening anyone . . . most people aren't listening to you . . . Hospitalizations and treatment for vaccine preventable illness are way more lucrative that the vaccines . . . Easier to fool a person than to convince him he's been fooled . . . babies and toddlers change very quickly . . . given that babies get shots every two months or so, any change significant change is likely to happen within a short time of getting a vaccine . . . I think doctors are mis-educated in many ways, and a small percentage are straight-up crooks, as in any profession, but to insinuate that they are lying about vaccine safety? That they won't say that vaccines cause autism unless they are extraordinarily honest? That just beggars belief (that you would actually think almost all peds are liars), especially since the doctors don't make huge amounts of money off the vaccines - that's the pharmaceutical industry. Re: your antidepressant - doctors gaslight patients on psych meds all the time - that's not what's causing your symptoms, you just need more! Hell, I had a doctor tell me Benadryl can't cause a racing heart. Weird, that you have a psychiatrist who doesn't gaslight you but you think most pediatricians are crooks. No, people aren't mad at you for threatening to cost the crooks money, people are mad at you for trying to entice other parents not to prevent serious illness in their children. I'm not mad at you, but I'm glad you've exposed more of your thinking process to assist people in evaluating whether they can trust your conclusions.
Doctors make their money off vaccine injuries just as pHarma does. In fact, doctors get bonuses and perks for vaccinating certain percentages of their patient population. Vaccine injuries and deaths are real, not rare.
It's quite possible that exposure to anti-depressants in utero is a more viable cause of this effect. The push to get on anti-depressants started in the early 90s. A friend who took them while pregnant gave birth to a boy with an inverted penis that as a grown male is very small and the cause of much distress. I saw this correlation and have been on the lookout and in Vogue about ten years ago there was an article on the correlation between male babies born with penile deformities to mothers on anti-depressants.
There may be some validity to your thoughts. Not antidepressants but perhaps environmental contaminates. The 90s was when more and more beverages and foods began to be sold in plastic containers. My youngest daughter and I are both neurodivergent. I did not take antidepressants while pregnant with my daughter and my mother didn’t take antidepressants when pregnant with me. What we possibly have in common, if the theory of plastic containers leaching toxins into what we consume could ever be proven, exposure to environmental contaminants while in utero. I was conceived in 1976 when my family lived in military housing on Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. Throughout my mother’s entire pregnancy I was exposed to contaminated drinking water. Out of my 3 children it was my youngest in which I would have consumed the most prepackaged in plastic food and drink since I was working full time as a receptionist as opposed to being home most of the time like I was with my other 2 and therefore not consuming prepackaged food and drink as frequently, if at all.
Right — plastics carry endocrine disrupters
Interesting. One study says it doubles the odds. Also, maternal autoimmune disease seems to increase risk, and severity. I hadn't heard of the inverted penis problem. Poor kids!
Thank you for sharing, you make a very valid and important point. I would add, though, that this is not just about individual psychology. I know from my own son, that a huge part of the problem is physical too. He doesn't like being touched, he wears loose-fitting clothes, he can't abide the sound of other people eating, and so on. These physical aversions meant he totally freaked out when he hit puberty. The fact that gender ideology seemed to offer a way out, was, in part, because it seemed to offer a way out of all the physical discomfort he was experiencing. The ideas and concepts of gender ideology seem to simply be a justification after the fact. Doesn't make it any less pernicious, but I believe the physical is at least as important as the psychological.
As a clinician treating trans identifying youth I can say without hesitation that “gender dysphoria” and the need to transition is almost always coupled with neurodivergence. This is the case in 100% of my caseload, males and females alike. The main difference is that the boys usually get evaluated and diagnosed at a young age while the girls do not.
That is an interesting observation. Would you say schizophrenia and autism are similar neurodivergences with some overlap? Changing identity used to be a defining characteristic of schizophrenics. Now being transgender is the new schizophrenia with a new name. People uncomfortable with themselves find an escape in many ways. Wanting to avoid puberty is a common desire for those on the autistic spectrum. My brother is just recovering from life threatening neuroleptic syndrome caused by medication for schizophrenia. I think he is really on the autistic spectrum and for the past thirty years has been a “Guinea pig” as doctors tried to make him conform. I love him the way he was, unmedicated. It is evil the way psychiatrists feel pressured to medicate (in case he is dangerous unmedicated). My brother is a very gentle soul.
He went through puberty before transgenderism was popularised. In those days people such as him were put in psychiatric hospitals and heavily medicated. Now they are given cross sex hormones. I wonder which is worse. We live in a less than perfect world.
Would you say, then, that this really body dysmorphia?
I would say, whatever it is in the individual case, it’s definitely amplified by social contagion and reified by political and institutional drivers.
BRILLIANTLY WRITTEN!!
Wonderful piece, so brilliantly argued and rings so true. I've struggled to mentally articulate these very points as regards my own trans-identified autistic kid and it's vindicating to see them clarified in so cogent an essay. Unfortunately, the way this thing is being framed by the very groups supposed to advocate for our neurodivergent kids, is that an attraction to trans is somehow innate to the condition, part of the insidious 'true selves' argument. For example, I've written multiple times to the National Autistic Society asking them to include, for example, detransitioner accounts on their gender identity page, receiving no acknowledgment of these letters. Well done for bringing this to the light.
The National Autistic Society in the UK started promoting transgenderism more than ten years ago. There was a front page article about an autistic man becoming a woman.
Also the male brain theory of autism might have seemed a reason for girls to think they were “born in the wrong body”.
Yes, Baron-Cohen's theory was taken up by the mainstreaam, and meanwhile autistic girls went under-diagnosed for decades, partly due to better masking skills but probably mainly due to the inherent misogny of the field, in that they were always viewed as some sort of exception to the rule...
Inherent misogyny in the mental health field? Wherein about 73% of the therapists are women and women are more likely to seek and receive treatment even though men are two to four times more likely to commit suicide and also more likely to die of drug overdoses? And the American Psychological Association describes much masculinity as "toxic"? I'm not arguing with your assessment, I'm just curious what you're referring to. I'm not impressed with the state of psychology with regard to its treatment of women or men, but I am more concerned with the state of men's mental health, given the statistics, and, while I'm not sure how many people are actually helped by mental health care, I would hope it helps some people, and I find it more concerning the extent of unmet men's mental health care needs.
Yes, the (mental) health field is utterly misogynistic, in almost every aspect. That has nothing to do with the fact that there are many women working in it. There is a painful gender bias about almost every condition which leads to lesser mental care for men, that's correct, and forms of care for "invented" conditions for women (e.g. menopause is not a health condition). These are only 2 examples of an entire iceberg. To understand this bias, we have to look into the history of (Western) medicine in general, and mental health care in particular. But please be warned: it's quite the horror story.
Thank you, Sylvia.
When my daughter was eventually diagnosed aged 16, teachers where reluctant to believe her diagnosis as her masking skills were superb. Those same skills are used now to act the part of a man. I could foresee she would be an actress but never imagined her as an actor.
With my daughter it's a similar story, she was only diagnosed at 16 as well and had slipped through the net at school with no one picking up on her difficulties. I think that it's often the case that if a child isn't disruptive or displaying challenging behaviour, the Sencos don't bother to explore the reasons for social isolation/poor academic performance, etc. They often don't even bother to produce an IEP for the child without vocal interventions by parents...
My experience also. My eldest displayed disruptive behaviour, enabling her to be excluded from school aged 5 years. She was given support to enable her to return to mainstream school. The youngest was so quiet nobody noticed her difficulties until she “shut down” and I discovered she had been self harming aged 14
Yet the head teacher of her primary school had written on her school report when she was five that she had mild Aspergers. Going through CAMHS was a nightmare.
Yes, me too, my eldest also got into trouble early on and he was diagnosed aged 7, whereas my youngest is extremely shy and socially anxious, also started self-harming in her early teens at which point finally people realised there may be a problem... CAMHS are an absolute nightmare, totally captured. We ended up going private.
Yes, true and well said too. Our neurodivergent family members are being sterilised because their differences are not valued. This is discrimination and is unjust. Autistic people were institutionalised only a few decades ago. This is no longer popular. Now the treatment offered is gender change and acceptance within society, legally enforced. Insanity has been normalised. As I question this eugenics movement I am excluded from “normal” society.
As a late diagnosed autistic (and lesbian) woman, this article and a few of the comments really touched on a few points for me. I received my diagnosis 2 years ago, at the age of 54, and it changed my life.
Here are a few things I feel the need to say.
1. Vaccines do not cause autism.
I am a huge believer in science and medicine. However, I know that science and medicine have been corrupted by capitalist and political interest. I believe in what is called “informed consent” – but, in contrary to how things might seem in 2023, this is as difficult as it has been ever, maybe even more, due to tampered and corrupted information. Vaccines are a huge issue, but they do not cause autism. But maybe they have different (stronger) impact on our brains, that is something I can very well imagine.
2. Terminology.
I do use the terminology of neurodivergence, however, I also see the shortcomings of it. One being that, should autism not be seen as a discapacity anymore on an official level, a lot of support for many families would just drop away, leaving individuals and parents of young and older children who need much support in pure dispair. It’s a bit like trying to put a race horse and a tiny shetland pony into the same game category, with the same riders, diet, workout, climate… both are horses but completely different. This metaphor only describes the 2 far ends of autism, and there is so much colour variation in between.
What I once again noticed though, reading the article and some of the comments, is that there are countless different levels and facettes and nuances to autism and other neurodiverse conditions. Yes, it’s truly diverse!
3. Autism and empathy, and other prejudices.
There are a lot more highly empathetic autistic people than society is aware of – we just all too often are plainly overwhelmed and don’t know what to say, how to react… because so often what we say is perceived in the wrong way, especially when it’s about vulnerable things and moments. It took me until my early 50s (a few years before I suspected actual autism, until then I always only just knew that “I’m too different") that it is perfectly okay NOT to say anything, when someone shares vulnerable emotions. As for other situations… yes, many of us can relate and feel empathy. What I think could be a challenge though when it comes to social dishonesty, as part of the social game, especially the flirting game, among (young) adults. I can say about myself that to this very day I will notice this “Huh? Something’s off…? Why he/she doing/saying this?” moment, meaning, when someone might be “playing”… but I can’t catch up.
And also, I don’t understand it. I don’t understand WHY it has to be done like this. And I could imagine that a lot of other autistic people feel similarly and sort of “remove themselves” mentally/emotionally, which of course by the peers would be perceived as something negative and lack of empathy. In my case it always was like this.
As for me, together with autism I have also been given a high amount of intelligence, intellectual as well as emotional. This proved all my life as equally a blessing and a curse. It enabled me to “counteract” the “missing pages in the manual”, but of course this came at a price. Not only took this a huge toll on my mental health, but also on my academic performance (the mental power to do what could have been possible with the intellectual capacity went to a large degree into this counteracting). Also, socially. I could act brilliantly – on some days, and on others barely, and when the same people experienced this difference, they sometimes made fun of me, teased me or downright forced me to be my “highly functional” act. I never was aware that I was “acting” – but all my life I was VERY aware that I am totally different, and that most people did not like that at all (not to mention the utter exhaustion of making myself “fit in”).
4. Gender dysphoria.
I had that. Big time. Of course!! You grow up in a world where, for instance, one of your special interests is ancient mythology, from Greek to Egyptian to anything you find in one of the 3 public libraries of your little home town. And everywhere it’s about men, men and boys, they are strong, valiant, heroic… and the women do the dishes. And if they don’t do the dishes, they have alabaster skin and tender breasts and seductive deep eyes and wet red lips… I did not have that. I had never seen that on anyone. And later, girls were “hot chicks” on motorcycles. If anything, I wanted the motorcycle and not the red bikini and certainly not kissing the bearded idiot grinning on the ad. Later I was into mountain bikes, and I remember, already in the 2000s, Cannondale had an ad in a MTB magazine that enfuriated women on both sides of the Atlantic.
Of course girls and young women don’t want that. Not just because it is so degrading, but also, yes, we KNOW that we’re different, we DO feel like aliens abandoned on this planet…
And nowadays it’s the hype to be trans. “Oh, I’m not wrong – my body is wrong. And that’s easy. Just a few hormones and a few cuts.” Just the other day I read on the FB page of an autistic woman in the UK, grown-up woman in her 40s, with wife and kids, talking about taking hormones and transitioning as if it just were another form of clothing style.
So, as much as it pains me, here I have to say: the article is right about this. Autistic people are an easy target. Not only the youth. Sometimes I look around on IG and FB for autism, and the amount of mostly young autistic females identifying as trans makes me want to scream.
So, in this light I can see where you are coming from about the terminology… you certainly have a point. Now I understand why the other day (on a Spanish publications in FB and IG) some people reacted really aggressively about the post being about neurodivergence and the educational info.
The bottom line, I guess, may be this: if we “re-categorize” autism and don’t classify it as a discapacity anymore, but “just another form of brain”, A LOT of individuals and families will be thrown into economic and health care jeopardy.
Such a change of approach can only come TOGETHER with a different approach to health, mental and physical, and well-being.
Also, it will put US autistic people again under the pressure of “playing along” – now that it’s not a negative thing anymore, and this happens very quickly and very easily, even with good and trusted friends. In certain ways and for some reasons, neurotypicals often have the tendency to push through with their own interests, thinking “it’s not that bad”, “come on, you’re fine!” and like that. And we autistic and otherwise neurodiverse people have the tendency to give in. They (the neurotypical friends and family) believe they know what’s good (for us) – and we believe them.
Which is a form of empathy (double empathy).
Which is also where that situation comes in, that one person describes in the comments: the sex offender gone trans and then housed in a female prison in a cell with a developmentally disabled female that he abused the whole time. I can see this happen to myself: if the person doesn’t apply brute violence but subtle “sweet talk” and manipulation… I couldn’t say that I’d not give in. Whether I’d like it or not, and I would realize that only weeks or months later. And no high IQ can protect me from that because it’s a processing thing in the brain, connected to the emotions.
And that in itself is nearly impossible to get others, i.e. neurotypicals to understand.
But it’s a thing.
Please allow me here to refer to the LGB Alliance US: they have monthly Zoom meetings for various groups, also neurodiverse lesbian, gay and bisexual women and men, and also they have a group for gender dysphoria. That one is very strict and moderated tightly. At the moment I don’t know if there’s a special “chapter” for the youth… but that could be worth discussing with them.
I really don’t know how we can protect the gay and lesbian (and bi) autistic kids… I am talking about this with my doctor all the time, she is fully on my page (against gender ideology). It’s one autistic kid at a time, I guess…
thank you so much for the comments. Excellent insights. I'm the author of the essay. I'm agnostic on what terminology is used to describe or label this population. I can see advantages/disadvantages to using various descriptors. I chose to focus on the diverse aspect or neurodiverse because of trying to make the point about different brains. And different ways of coping with the world. I adore my "neurodivergent" son just as he is. And want him to exist wholly and intact in our world. And likewise all other autistic individuals. As far as the empathy thing. My son is deeply caring and concerned for others. Almost too much at times. He just doesn't know how to express it in what would be considered socially acceptable ways. Or at least it is not intuitive. But he can learn such things. Neurotypicals have to learn such things as well. But how can a young person learn social skills, and interpersonal skills in general, when you are spending all your time pretending to be something you're not?
Susan this essay is brilliant. Please please try and have it published more widely!!
So well written, thank you. Schools in the US (and maybe other places as well) generally only teach to the middle. I remember early in my training reading the book, 'All Kinds of Minds" and I truly believe there are all kinds of minds. I tried so hard to give my son a good life and keep him from being labeled knowing full well he had a different kind of mind. He did well in school both academically and socially, he talked about being 'bi" and that has always been accepted in our family. He was love and supported and had access to good therapy to learn more about himself. It wasn't until he left home and was in college and started to fall down the rabbithole that is the internet that he seemed to want to cloak himself in diagnoses. It is so sad actually as he was just lovely as himself and we adored him and we miss him very much. It was his decision to cut us off and run off with the circus.
I am so, so sorry about this!! Hopefully he will be able to make the round with as little bruises as possible and find his way back to love and support. 🙏🏼❤️
Vaccines absolutely cause autism. 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 30 in the US, something has to be causing that. Dr Christopher Exley has demonstrated the high levels of aluminium in autistic brains, specifically the glial and microglial cells. Aluminium is a neurotoxin. He found aluminium levels that were extraordinarily high in a 15 year old - no time for slow lifelong exposure such as he observed in Alzheimer's disease. Where did that aluminium come from? the most plausible candidate is aluminium adjuvants in vaccination. Since 1986 vaccine act removed liability the amount of vaccines has massively increased, meaning more injection of aluminium. At the same time autism skyrockets. (Of course there can be other mechanisms of injury that aren't aluminium but the case for aluminium's involvement is strong).
The neurodiversity narrative is problematic because it glamourises our sh*t lives, makes it out that have severe anxiety, sensory issues etc are great and make you special and ~unique~. Really the whole ~uwu~ aspect of neurodiversity fuels the trans cult as well. The trivialization of severe issues and glamourisation of such is really the same on the trans cult and the neurodiversity cult. They are basically the same thing. They both glamourise Pharma and you aren't able to question them. It also completely ignores those with severe autism non verbal with seizures, etc. neurodiversity just ignores their suffering & pretends autism is ~uwu being a bit quirky and having 10 PhDs like Sheldon Cooper~.
I think the term needs to be thrown in the garbage. And every time I see people using it I will be opposing it.
FALSE. Vaccines DO NOT cause autism. THERE IS NO CAUSE FOR AUTISM, other than a genetic predisposition, and that also is not yet fully understood. Please stop spreading this complete nonsense! There's just better ways of "detecting" autism and other forms of neurodivergence nowadays. And because *you* have a "sh*t" life, I would recommend not to suggest that every other neurodiverse person also must have such. Thank you.
I'm not going to be silent because you tell me to shut up. Why are you so angry at the idea that vaccines cause autism? why lashing out & not even considering the explanation I laid out for you, backed up by science?
Sensory issues, gastroenterological issues, anxiety, communication issues, are INHERENT parts of autism and are INHERENTLY miserable.
The reason people get angry when people say vaccines cause autism is because it can cause people not to vaccinate their children, leading to a lot of avoidable premature death and disability. Unfortunately, the medical profession is such that sometimes a person can't help but notice that sometimes the "expert" opinion is simply wrong. I spent hours and hours researching the vaccine/autism connection when I was pregnant with my first born, and I found a lot of dishonesty in the anti-vaccine camp (ex. "polio deaths dropped a lot before the polio vaccine" - well, yeah, cause the iron lung was invented and widely used - who wants to put their kids through that??), and I printed out two maps of the US, one showing vaccine compliance by state, and the other showing autism rates by state: I found no correlation between the two, but I did find that wealthier states diagnosed more autism, which could be because wealthier parents take their kids to the doctor more often to seek out diagnoses and wealthier governments provide more services, and because there are more older fathers, as well as more engineering-type men and women marrying each other. The characteristics that are now diagnosed as autism is much broader than before, which is why, I believe, the numbers have sky-rocketed. I talked to two older pediatricians about what they'd noticed, insofar as more kids getting autism with more vaccines being added to the schedule, and they both told me that they haven't noticed more autism per se, but kids who used to be diagnosed with mental retardation are now diagnosed with autism, and many fewer children in their practices are becoming deaf, blind, or having intellectual disabilities stemming from infections that are now vaccine-preventable. I totally get not trusting doctors, because I don't trust doctors or the government as a matter of course based on my own experiences, but I also get why people get angry when you say that vaccines cause autism, and while I wouldn't want to give a child the covid shot or the flu shot, I generally think vaccines are one of the greatest inventions ever and I wish more people felt safe vaccinating their kids.
Vaccines are junk science.
"Vaccination is essentially trying to ‘hack’ this extremely complex system through the extremely crude method of antigen and adjuvant injection. Vaccination sees the natural immune system as ‘insert A = get B’ or ‘insert needle = get antibodies = protection against disease’. The complex cascades of multiple interlinking factors are not present in this equation. Nor are factors such as route of exposure, and that injection of a dead/attenuated pathogen is a fundamentally different mechanism to the natural exposure which would be through, for example, aerosol. And here I am talking only of what we know or can surmise, because there is a large number of things about the immune response that we probably do not know."
https://cassandrasbox.com/2023/01/29/circuit-boards-and-hammers-thoughts-on-vaccination-abolition/
Of course paediatricians are not going to say vaccines cause autism, unless they are extraordinarily honest. It's them doing the injecting. So they would have to acknowledge that they caused lifelong debility in their patients, which is very unlikely to happen unless the individual is able to be extremely honest with themselves about their own guilt, which most people cannot be. Someone else posted the Upton Sinclair quote here. Very very true.
1 in 10,000 to 1 in 30 cannot be explained by any other factor other than there is more autism. It is an Exponential increase over 50 years. That cannot be explained by pissing about with definitions. Nor can a multitude of other factors such as
1) the high level of neurotoxin aluminium in the brain of people who died with autism diagnosis
2) parental testimony of children regressing immediately after a vaccine. I had an atrocious reaction to Mirtazapine. I started feeling like shit within an hour of taking it. No one would gaslight me and say 'it wasn't the mirtazapine', but when a child clearly regresses within 24h of a vaccine, it's ok to gaslight a parent and say it wasn't the vaccine? How do you explain these parental testimonies? They're all liars?
3) The CDC vaccine court has paid out for autism cases. why if vaccines causing autism is impossible? Sure they play word games on this but they've paid out.
4) the Fraud in the CDC MMR-autism study as revealed by Dr. William Thompson. if MMR has no relation to autism, fraud in that study would have been unnecessary.
People get angry for a number of reasons about me speaking out about vaccines:
1) I'm an autist myself so I don't fit their spangly ~neurodiversity autism is wonderful uwu~ narrative and refuse to play along with it which makes them angry. They don't want to realise they have been vaccine-injured themselves because it is very painful to realise they took your whole future and personality and chucked it in the trash when you were 1 year old and you had no choice. So you have to go into denial and viciously attack the person pointing this out.
2) They are making money out of vaccines & I threaten the grift
3) They are making money out of selling 'neurodiversity' or other aspects of the autism industry and I threaten the grift
3) they are fully indoctrinated into the vaccine cult & I threaten their ideology
I'm neither angry nor did I tell you to "shut up". And this: "Sensory issues, gastroenterological issues, anxiety, communication issues, are INHERENT parts of autism and are INHERENTLY miserable." is simply not correct. Many autistic people have some of these, but not all, and not always to the same extent. What you are talking about is not only outdated "science", it actually never was science. Thank you.
Exley's paper was published in 2018.
Well you went all caps on me and told me to 'stop spreading this complete nonsense'. Sounds like anger and telling me to shut up, to me. Being as I'm not going to change my views.
You have to have communication issues or you're not autistic, literally, if you can communicate normally no one is going to call you bloody autistic!
DSM 5: Persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts, as manifested by the following, currently or by history 3 out of 3 criteria must be met. so you HAVE to have social deficits to be autistic.
I never said they were all to a severe extent, you made that bit up, obviously that isn't true. I only have relatively mild gastroenterological issues for example. But I do have all of those. Even if you want to say that autists have only some of them, that's still INHERENT misery in autism.
My son has never been diagnosed. He academically always did very well. He had a select group of friends. As an educator I didn’t feel it was necessary. I saw no benefit to him. I also always believed that we all are unique and many of us have quirks. This makes the world a more interesting place. Never did I think a danger and predictors were waiting for kids just like him.
Excellent.
Helping to make neurodiverse/autistic men and women sterile is discriminatory, full stop. Not only that, by starting the process at younger and younger ages, the likelihood that they will be able to experience adequate sexual function or pleasure as adults, or even be able to form healthy dating relationships, is greatly reduced. Simply put, they are being preyed upon.
I’m glad you posted this.
Furthermore, as a follow up, I have a teen daughter who has Down Syndrome, and I have battled for her inclusion in a society that thinks it is ok to screen her out before birth. I am well aware of the eugenics movement as I see it happening in her peer group. For every child with DS that we see, there are far more that weren’t given the chance to live.
Parents of neurodiverse children and teens better start fighting hard for their own kiddos before big pharma and big tech grabs them first to aid them in self mutilation and destruction.
I always thought about what would happen if there was a pre-natal screening for ASD; sadly, it is happening after they are born with this transgender agenda. It’s frightening and people have to wake up.
THEY CANT STAND THE TRUTH