As an autistic person who has spent quite a bit of time thinking about and researching autism because I really wanted to understand, the people who act on this shit are fucking ignorant morons. Autism is genetic, and more than just being a part of human diversity seems to be a fundamental part of being human, to the extent that if there were no autistic people there would be no humans at all. Autism is neurological specialization, and appears to be one of the core features of humanity that allowed us to achieve our dominance over the earth. There's even some relatively recent research suggesting it's directly the result of the genetic changes that lead to our extreme intelligence, so if you were able to "cure" autism by removing those genes from the population, you'd also make humanity dramatically stupider, which would have unimaginable consequences for the species. Thinking fucking aspirin of all things has any impact at all on the fundamental nature of humanity is delusional at best and suggests a prelude to genocide at worst. It's just so fucking mind bogglingly ignorant and stupid for people to believe this shit.
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You don't take Tylenol because something something bullshit autism.
I don't take Tylenol because I seem to be among those for whom it doesn't do shit as a pain reliever.
We are not the same.
I don't know what's wrong with me but lots of pain meds don't work on me, caffeine doesn't seem to make me less tired or more energetic, and I can't get high off of weed. Even got sent home with some morphine pills at some point and didn't even use them all because I didn't notice a difference.
You can't fix stupid, but you can depend on it.
RFK made pregnant women (you know, famously rational and not emotionally driven at all) afraid of one of the safest medications going and for what? You cant blame pregnant women for thinking "What if this is the time he is right?" when deciding not to out up with a slight headache could put their babies long term development potentially at risk.
This is exactly what they wanted. Lingering confusion.
I want to hurt a company, hmmm, how about I lie about it to the president? FUCK