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    Who you gonna trust? Scientists who have researched the problem for their whole professional lives, or Maggot Brain?

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      Don’t call him that, please. Stick with worm brain or something else, anything else, I beg you.

      Please don’t sully the title of both a fantastic album and the greatest guitar solo ever put to recording.

      Don’t let these people soil yet another thing in this life.

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      Whaaaaat?!? How dare you?! I’m going to trust the scientists that maggot brain will put in front of the microphone!

      /s just to be sure. There should be some reaaaaally large air quotations marks around the word scientists.

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    They announced they’d be announcing this last spring. I’m just going to copypasta what I wrote on my Facebook at the time, because I was pretty happy with it to be honest

    Humor me for a minute. Let’s pretend that HHS promised the cause of type I diabetes by September. This has been researched for years, and suddenly they’re going to have the cause pinpointed? And without knowing what that cause is (much less how or even if it could be prevented) they’re also promising to say how it could be prevented. Seems kinda unrealistic at best, yeah?

    Now let’s go back to what’s actually being attempted: “finding” the cause of autism. Same thing, except it’s being lead by a guy who has been drinking the conspiracy-flavored Kool Aid for years. You would have a hard time convincing me that 1) after years of research, they will have a definitive and final cause in about 6 months, 2) this will be directed with the neutrality needed for proper research, and 3) of all the many many diseases we have in this country, autism just so happens to be the one that needs that immediate attention.

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    If they had actually discovered a cause of autism, or even substantially advanced research in that area they would have announced it right away, rather than engaging in this hype cycle bs like they are trying to defraud a venture capitalist.

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      More to the point, we already know the cause of autism; genetics. This isn’t new, it’s not some shocking discovery, it’s been known about for ages. Most of the research at this point is focused on the interconnections between autism, ADHD, dyslexia and dysphraxia, which all show a high propensity for genetic clustering; basically if one person in a family has one of them, the odds of the others being present in the same or other members shoots up massively. That’s really interesting and suggests they might all just be different manifestations of the same underlying genetic condition.

      The whole notion that autism has a “cause” is just anti-vaxxer nonsense concocted by a fraud doctor (that’s not an accusation, it’s a fact; he was stripped of his medical license after it was shown that his “research” was a sham, and that he literally tortured innocent children to concoct his fake results) feeding on the insecurities of parents who want someone to blame for their child being different rather than just accepting that sometimes that’s just how people do be.

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        Hey hey, it is still possible that there are environmental factors that make the genetic causes more or less likely to result in full autism. Kennedy certainly hasn’t found any of those though.

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        It’s so obvious just looking at my family. We’re successful because of the neurodivergence more than anything.

        But I always have to remind people, there is a darker reason behind the conservative outcry against autism though. We do not respect authority on the basis of authority alone. There has to be a valid reason. Holding a gun to my head probably won’t make me do what you demand, and if it does, you’ll shoot me anyway because I’ll be slow and complain the whole time vowing to take the steps to make you as miserable as you are making me.

        For whatever reason, they cannot comprehend it. They lobotomized people over it. They executed people over it. They sterilized, they institutionalized. Everything for us has to have an answer to “why.” And it deeply offends them.

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          Ain’t that the fucking truth.

          In a weird way autism may have partly spared me from a lot of mental trauma and issues. Growing up I went through a lot of things that tends to people having a lot of self doubt, anxiety, people pleasing tendencies, etc. I knew from a very young age though (maybe not as concretely as I do now) that what was happening to me wasn’t my fault. Like sure I knew I was a kid and that certain things about me were difficult, but it was very clear to me when the things adults did made no sense or were hypocritical. That’s not to say I didn’t end up with other issues like poor social skills, but that still seems a lot better than the previously mentioned options.

          Also, I’m still wanting to know when I get all the taxes I paid back since we apparently aren’t ever supposed to be paying taxes.

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          We could get some Vegas style betting odds going on this.

          Vaccines, 2:1 (Best odds cuz this is just the de facto conspiracy theory for it) 5G signals, 4:1 Chemtrails, 8:1
          Immigrants, 3:1 (gets a boost from being the big boogeyman of the admin currently) Wokeness, 20:1 (Seems too vague and nonspecific to be a valid choice, so long odds, but still giving it much better odds than the 10000:1 this one deserves, cuz honestly who knows what they’ll pull out of their asses with this.) Flouride, 12:1 (RFK has said some dumb things about Flouride before, but I’m not really expecting this one.) Antidepressants, 6:1 (He’s blamed them for the existence of school shootings, why not autism as well?) Pasteurization, 15:1 (Only drinking raw milk will keep the autism away!)

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      23 hours ago

      Disordered humors and curdled vapors, caused by the happiness of trans people.

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        Honestly the only reason Germany ever got the damned thing is because you guys went nuts post industrialization, otherwise it’s a question on if Britain or the USA would’ve kept it. Shit like Wounded Knee was in living memory until but a scant few decades ago, same thing with a bunch of the shit Britain pulled in India and South Africa.

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    As with any great modern scientific discovery, nothing is shared, or can be guessed from existing evidence, until the great reveal!

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    It was me, I did it. I caused autism.

    I’m ready to accept blame for my acts.

    But I stand by what I did.

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      As I pointed out in another comment, no guessing is required. It’s genetics. We know it’s genetics. That’s been pretty self-evident from the data for decades. It’s just anti-vaxxers who refuse to accept that answer and prefer some made up woo by a quack doctor who tortured children.

      Sorry, my bad, two quack doctors. The other sells his blood as an autism “cure”.