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Autism has been in the news again for a

couple of different reasons. I think we

all know that there's been like a false

association between vaccines and autism.

There's a famous paper that, you know,

so many authors end up retracting their

names. Um, but I think this conversation

comes up a lot. There's a lot of

conversation around vaccines right now

because America's going through a lot of

internal strife and discussion around

that. Also, it was like a month ago when

R I always say RFK, but it's RFK Jr.

came forward to talk and really like

highlight a specific study that found

that one in 150 kids in the year 2000

had autism whereas now it's up to one in

31 kids. The CDC has another new report

saving saying that there's been a 15%

jump in autism cases in the last 2 years

and these trends are occurring

throughout a lot of high-income

countries like the UK, Denmark, South

Korea and Japan. And so there are people

like RFK Jr. who have truly sat and said

there is an environmental toxin causing

this and by the end of the year we're

going to know exactly why there's so

much like we're going to explain to you

the cause of this increase in autism

which has caused science researchers

across the world to panic and really

talk about what we're going to talk

about today because it's important

people understand as we go forward

because it is going to get co-opted I

think to change science and do some

messed up things.

Yeah. And I the one other thing I want

to say that we'll bring up today and

talk about is the research between

Tylenol or acetaminophen um and autism

and even ADHD and and things like this.

This has been in the news a lot. I think

RFK Jr. has talked about this and that

they believe they should like restrict

the use of Tylenol especially for um

people who are pregnant. That's kind of

what the science or the conversation has

been around. So we're going to dive into

like all this mix of stuff.

So the first thing is like what is

autism? I kind of was like doing all

this research and then forgot to kind of

be like wait cuz they just talk about

ASD autis or like autism like spectrum

disorder and I always was and then

eventually I was like what is it?

Mhm. So it it's actually so vague in

some ways because it can show up so

differently for so many different people

now and that generally it's a harder

time communicating specific intense

interests or a harder time with like

when your routines disrupted intense

reactions to bright lights, loud noises,

and stimuli that might be deemed

annoying. I was like, "Okay." Like it

was like I feel like sometimes you need

to be reminded of that because it feels

like

it's nice to have also like definitional

boundaries to especially when you're

researching something to say okay does

it fit and tick these boxes. We can't

just have a vague amorphous like of

course it's called um a spectrum. Um,

and through the past we have had words

like Asberers and now people talk about

being neurode divergent, but some people

say that they're like completely

functional in society and can hold the

job and do these things. But of course

there's other ends of the spectrum where

people need full assistance and need

help with from other people. And so

there is a spectrum and obviously we in

scientists and everyone wants to respect

that someone could have some of these

traits but I think it's it is useful to

have like these definitions that help to

especially look at research and say does

this person have this condition?

Yes. And so we're going to start talking

about the reasons that scientists and

researchers agree on could cause someone

to have autism. And the most striking,

the most obvious and the answer as to

why someone would most likely have

autism, which RFK Jr. and a lot of like

mega people are ignoring, is genetics.

So that is the most important thing to

remember. Um it's 70 to 90% inherited.

It's similar to the inheritability of

height, which I thought was really

interesting, which is 80% heritability.

So, like if you look at a family, um, if

you have a family history of someone

having ASD, you're much more likely to

have it. If one sibling has it, it's

more likely the other siblings going to

have it. When they looked at identical

twins, it's extremely likely for them

both to have it. So, it's it's it's

genetic like a that I just

like a massive piece of it is from

studies shows that like perhaps there

are environmental things that can affect

and that's why we'll talk about like

Tylenol. Can that increase the odds or

something?

Yeah. like plastics, these kind of

things that people talk about um or

vaccines, which has always been

controversial. It's not true, but uh

yeah, just to say it doesn't mean there

can't be environmental factors, but when

the research looks into twins and

siblings and these things, it's like,

okay, we can see that a chunk of it is

heritable. It's either being passed,

it's being passed on from the family

genes. And what's interesting about

these studies is that they can't

understand like the human brain is so

complicated. They can't understand

exactly what's going on genetically to

cause the autism. They just look overall

like picture like a family tree and then

they see the heritability. They're not

at the point now with science to go this

is the specific gene that causes this

that causes that. Like it's so

complicated. And I think one of the most

important things to remember about this

and as if you're an American, as your

government co-ops this to do crazy

is that this is so complicated. There's

not going to be one thing by the end of

the year that they figure out causes

autism. Like that is what the point of

this genetic research even is, is that

they're like the enemy of understanding

this is the complexity of the brain,

genetics, environment, and autism all

coming together. There's not going to be

one thing. And it disgusts me to think

that that was even said that we're gonna

figure out those saying the it's like

not to get into like the politics of it,

but it makes you realize like this is

how and I'm not saying this is like a

left or right issue, but in terms of

like an authoritarian government, being

able to say we are the ones who can

figure it out, can solve it. It comes

down to a specific issue. We're going to

find that one thing. Like life is so

much more complicated than that. It's

like saying there's one thing that can

cause cancer and we're just going to

figure out cancer. It's like no. But

when you start researching, you realize

actually cells can metastasize in like

so many different pathways and that's

why cancer is like very complicated to

like eradicate because it might be

because your cells duplicate too fast.

It might be because their apoptosis or

cell death mechanisms are not

functioning properly. There's like

literally 10 different ways it can

happen. And so I think autism is like a

like especially when it comes to like a

personality, not this is like a

personality disorder, but something

that's like psychological in a way. It's

we know these things are so much harder

to quantify and take a lot more research

and time and data, especially if we're

saying parts of it might be

environmental, parts of it might be

genetic. It's just important to remember

when someone promises they can be the

ones to figure it out and they can force

science to figure something out in a

year that has been being studied for a

long time. It's just like take its note

of that

absolute horrifying red flag. Like it's

not like a partisan thing. It's it's

extremely scary to think to to pre

before doing any science say you're

going to figure it out is crazy. We'll

get more into that I think at the end.

We can keep going now I think through

all the different examples of specific

things that could cause us autism which

might get co-opted by like the media. So

maybe you could talk about um Tylenol

because it is so interesting.

Okay. So I something I find interesting

and obviously I'm going to use the word

Tylenol and acetaminophen. Uh obviously

acetaminophen is like the generic brand

generic name for the brand Tylenol. This

is the drug that's in it, but you can go

to your drugstore and just get

acetaminophen and have that same effect

as Tylenol. What I find interesting is

that the way that it's being talked

about by this like maha movement like

RFK Jr. is they're always talking about

Tylenol, but it's like that's not the

drug and it's obviously so that people

feel afraid of it in my mind. Like sure

you might argue

a big pharma vibe.

Well, I just feel like

why aren't they talking about it as

acetaminophen? That's the drug if they

believe that. It just feels interesting

that they're like posing it as Tylenol.

We're going to take down Tylenol.

Anyway, going into the research on this,

why it has popped up and scared people

is because for a long time doctors would

say, "Okay, Advil, which is ibuprofen,

maybe isn't the best to take if you're

pregnant because it can impact the blood

flow to the fetus." And Tylenol has

always been considered or

acetaminophen's been considered sort of

like the more safe one. If you have a

fever or you're not feeling like you

have aches or something's going on, you

can take that. But there's been this

sort of like slow history of studies

popping up things showing like huh maybe

there's some evidence that Tylenol acts

as like an endocrine disruptor maybe

which is something similar to like

plastics like phalates are an endocrine

disruptor and I think it's like

structurally Tylenol or sorry

acetaminophen acts like this in your

body. So there's been some concerns

around that studies that have flagged

that but again it's always been like

some studies show it some studies don't.

there's never been overwhelming evidence

for this. Um then again from that some

studies started finding correlations

between autism and people who are

pregnant who take Tylenol and kind of in

proportion to like how much they would

take Tylenol. And it all came to a head

in 2021 when Nature Journal, extremely

respected and highly reputable journal

posted sort of this thing called a

consensus statement where they were like

we believe people should stop taking

Tylenol if they're pregnant. there is

some evidence out there for this and so

don't risk it because we're seeing these

weird correlations with autism.

Now, that that's like not problematic in

and of itself, but many scientists came

out and said like the evidence feels so

weak for this. Maybe there's

associations, but like there's not

enough out there

and there's not actually a consensus.

And so the word consensus statement is

very it's like an interesting sort of

like

literary issue because it's actually not

that makes you think that every

scientist out there is agreeing or the

vast majority and in fact the vast

majority were not agreeing. Of course

like more reasonable scientists and

those who would have published this are

reasonable as well. If you're going in

nature it's like they're seeing that

some studies are showing educating the

public.

They're not saying like the people who

are criticizing this aren't saying

there's no evidence for this. They're

just saying to make it a consensus

statement is maybe a little bit rushed.

So there's been subsequent research and

meta analyses from this. The interesting

thing is that some meta analysis were

finding the same thing like 20 to 30%.

This was like the number of PE that the

chance higher that your child would have

autism if you were taking Tylenol. Um

acetaminophen.

Yes. Acetaminophen. Sorry. Thank you.

And so basically these other big reviews

started playing together. They found the

same result and they were like, "Okay,

well first that's a good thing because

we're matching up with a similar number

to what other studies are finding.

But then they did it something

interesting which not a lot of studies

do because it's more complicated. They

started I mean every study should

probably do this. They started

accounting for more variables. So they

started looking at like okay well what

if we account more specifically for the

pregnant person's age? What if we

started accounting more for their health

issues? What if we started accounting

for X, Y, and Z? And the first one when

they just started accounting for their

age.

Oh my gosh, our Google just started

talking. That's

the world's ending.

You can't hear it, but sometimes our

little Google Home thing just starts

talking to us and it scares me.

Accounting for age. Okay, we can talk

about age cuz I have lots on that, too.

Yeah.

Yeah. So, um, accounting for age alone

brought the rates of autism down to 5%.

So from 30% at the high end to 5%

when you take acetaminophen.

Yes. So people taking acetaminophen

we're like okay we see 30% higher chance

of autism. But if we start to realize

and factor in age the older somebody is

the more likely they are to have a child

with autism.

Yes. So there's other studies and it's

like if you if the mother having the kid

um is over 40 there's a 3.2 to 5.6% 6%

increased chance of that kid having

autism and similar a little bit smaller

for when the father or the person with

the penis's sperm is over 40. So

okay that is a trend that they have seen

is okay like that that has been

increasing recently people are having

kids later older men are actually having

like more kids with their like older

sperm. So okay that could be a factor

and when you start bringing that factor

into these this Tylenol research it

starts to decrease what actually the

acetaminophen's doing

right and I mean in epidemiology you

call this like a confounding variable

right so or there this starts to look

like maybe the Tylenol or acetaminophen

is not the main factor but it's

associated with age same with like oh

we're noticing all these the example our

university professor used to always give

when we were first learning about

confounding variables was like For some

reason, all these people who carry

around lighters in their pockets have

lung cancer. Yeah. And so, do do the

lighters cause lung cancer? Obviously,

we can all know, okay, no, it's the

cigarettes, but the lighter is a

confounding variable because it's

associated, but it's not actually the

part that's

like someone might be like, it's the

metal and the lighter in your leg.

Exactly. Um, but it's easier to see that

clear kind of like obviously we're not

thinking it's the lighter, but there's

an association. Yeah. So these studies

then further started analyzing other

variables genes being a big one. So like

you said or Greg had mentioned 70 to 90%

of autism is believed to be genetic.

These studies started looking at family

units. So they would you know the best

kind of family unit study is on twins.

But if you can't do that sort of the

second best is like look at siblings.

Let's look at families where maybe they

had like a database I think of two and a

half million kids here over the course

of I think 26 years. This is a study

from Sweden who like tracks a lot of

their health data regardless. Um, and

they so basically it's like let's track

what drugs the mother was taking, their

health, if they were taking

acetaminophen, maybe they took it for

one kid but didn't for the other. And

then when they start looking at these

genetic variables, they realize the

acetaminophen claims flatline. it's no

longer accounting for the rates of

autism,

especially in the high rates that will

be touted from that consensus statement,

etc. Also, there's a strong or sorry

again, I shouldn't use those words, but

there is a link between infections

during pregnancy and your child having

autism. So, that's another confounding

variable. If you are a mother who has an

infection, you're going to more likely

take Tylenol, but it's actually the

infection that is increasing the amount

of autism, right, in your kid, not the

Tylenol or the acid.

Now, like, of course, and and we're not

like the scientists. This is the

scientific process. There are studies

that still find these links, right? It

doesn't mean that there's 0% impact.

We're just seeing with these bigger

studies, okay, it's probably not like

30% of her.

It's not explaining the drastic rise in

autism in recent years, which is the

thing that I think no matter what, we

can't get around. Yes. And also

trying to blame it on acetaminophen is

the part that is actually crazy to to

that drastic increase onto

acetaminophen. Some people are trying to

say it's just that and then that's where

you're like, okay, that is completely

false. I one other interesting

confounding variable it's like as we

said genetic if you have an autistic

child you're more likely to be on the

spectrum. It doesn't mean you are

necessarily but you're more likely and

moms or pregnant people on the spectrum

experience more pain during pregnancy

including more migraines and stuff. So

there's all these possibilities. Again

this doesn't mean like studies need to

keep looking into this but if someone's

more likely to experience pain maybe

they're more likely to take painkillers.

Um and so to wrap up like this acid if

in part of course the research will grow

and science is not infallible and yes

pieces come in and out and more

attention will be given to this and I'm

not saying that's a bad thing like if

this current American administration

does fund more research that's

legitimate and isn't like biased

which it's not.

Yeah, we know that they want an answer.

Doesn't mean every study that comes out

that says there is a link is bad. It

doesn't mean everyone that comes out

that says there's no link is good, but

the more studies the the more analysis

we can do. Um, and of course we're not

like medical providers or doctors, but

the general consensus now from these

more recent studies is like if you're

overly concerned and you're pregnant, of

course you can try and avoid. There's

other risks. If you do get sick and have

a fever, for example, like that can also

be really bad for a child. And so it's

like it may be better to look after that

fever instead of letting your body have

that. But it's more like okay if you're

going to take Tylenol for weeks on end

or Advil for weeks on end you might be

playing a riskier game. So of course if

you have it once in a while your doctor

probably would say hey if you just have

like are feeling a fever for a couple

days

to your doctor folks do not use Tik Tok.

Yeah. Also, it's unbelievable how hard

it is to find any val. Like, I was like,

"Okay, but like la look into autism and

vaccines." Literally nothing. It's like

it's like it's not even part of the

conversation. It's quite horrifying to

think about how much it's been co-opted

online. people even in our video there's

no correlation between vaccines and

autism. Like I'm just like it's I'm

saying I'm I'm going to start talking

now about how there is a correlation

between pollution and autis like I'm

about to talk about studies that there

are some things that are not explaining

the drastic increase but they're kind of

like oh there's something here even

there is something there. the vaccine

thing. It's like there's actually

nothing which is so frustrating because

it is probably the most popular concept

online is that vaccines cause pervasive.

Yes. And it's just like kind of scary

when I'm like there's no scientific

evidence at all. And I mean like I can

feel weird like of course I want to be

empathetic to like new parents and

people who go through traumatic

experiences and and the thing is like

vaccines that protect and save kids

lives are given when they're young and

so

a parent who might have a developing

child and feel like their behavior isn't

keeping track with others gets

vaccinated and that they're building

this own correlation in their mind. Um,

that's a big part of it is that when

people study why someone might think it

was the vaccine, it's because when

people are diagnosed with autism,

they're usually around the same ages

when they get childhood vaccines. It's

that simple. It's like just a it's just

like, oh god, just like an annoying

coincidence.

Yeah. And I mean, obviously, even with

vaccines in general, like even if you

got your flu vaccine, like you might

have aches and pains after that. Like

some people do have reactions to them.

Obviously, on the whole, vaccines have

been studied for hundreds of years and

are constantly pushed for safety

regulations because they're like a

really intense thing to put into healthy

people and healthy children. So, they're

highly regulated unlike many other

industries where you're taking pills and

doing things that are supposed to like

make you feel better.

Vitamin.

Yeah. Um,

I forgot what I was going to say. It's

just that like you might have what I

take from is like the flu vaccine for

example is like a lot of my friends

won't take it cuz I'm like I took it

once and I felt sick for a day. But what

those people aren't realizing is that

then come January they got a horrible

flu and they get really sick and they're

not thinking oh I didn't if only I'd

gotten my vaccine. Like I've noticed

that a lot cuz I always get my flu

vaccine. Some people like in my life

they go in and out of it and there will

be times in January where they'll get

sick and I remind them like I'm not

sick.

That happened to me this year. I think I

said it on the pot. I'm embarrassed to

admit it but I was when I would normally

get my flu vaccine this year. I was

traveling for a few months and I think

in my mind I was like I'll have to just

get it when I get back and I didn't. And

I had like my worst sickness I've had in

a long time. and I was in the house with

you and all these things and I was like

this is an important thing to this is

what people need to think about cuz it's

so easy to think I got the vaccine and

then I felt like kind of weird for 12

hours or I got a little bit of a

headache the next day it's like okay but

that's like scientifically

and then I caught the flu and got a

little sick but maybe it's like you

might have had it ways

I was sick coughing feeling so awful it

was like and I was so mad at myself you

know you just like when you go so many

years without having to think about it

either cuz I had the vaccines or just

like got lucky by not being exposed

certain years. This year was such a

reminder for me of like I can't let that

slip my mind again and I won't make that

mistake again cuz I got so sick. Um and

of course that's just one data piece.

I'm not trying to like say my experience

is for everyone, but based on what you

see from research like that vaccines

protect sickness then they you might

still get catch it, but you're probably

then in that case going to have less

severe symptoms. Um

so okay so now there have been some

researchers like one study on 8,000

children said that their found that if a

mother had a higher exposure to ozone

levels it was associated with increased

autism. So that's like a pollutant

that's actually decreasing overall in

general in the public. So that doesn't

explain the large increase in the recent

years. But pollution does have an effect

unlike vaccines which has zero effect on

autism. Let's just like reiterate that.

Heavy metals for example can also have

an effect on the baby. Same with um uh

so for example like the heavy metal

would maybe somehow be exposed to the

mother which would make its way into the

fetus. But again heavy metals are also

decreasing in the general public like

lead like all the sort of quote unquote

environmental factors that

seemed legitimate

seem legitimately bad are all decreasing

in our populations where we're seeing

autism increase. So it's just not making

sense. Also, it's extremely rare that it

it causes, you know, um, autism because

because it's rare to just get heavy

metals in you.

Another interesting one was screen time.

And they did find some studies that did

find kids who were having symptoms or

whatever of autism, like maybe having

trouble holding eye contact or something

like that. After they decreased screen

time, they were better at holding eye

contact. But all those studies ended up

coming with interventions with parents

about how to interact with your kid. So

they weren't able to differentiate if it

was the screen time or actually parents

getting

help with how to talk and sort of

mitigate their kids.

Yeah. And that's an interesting point

too and this this is probably true of

other kinds of conditions or even well

maybe not diseases but where

multiple

issues can conflate to have similar

symptoms, right? So like maybe screen

time like and obviously this is why like

definitions are important and structures

uh from like doctors and health

professionals because like maybe screen

time does have an

effect on the way someone's brain

develops or their social capacity

which may not mean that they're like

genetically autistic. you know, like

they may not even got it from the

genetics, but maybe there's like an

environmental factor like screen time

that has affected their development in

terms of their communication. And maybe

maybe a scientist or a health

professional would say, well, okay,

definitionally that still falls into

like what we're calling autistic. But

like you said, in that case, maybe

they're able to work with certain

therapies through parent counseling and

that sort of stuff to work on that

whereas there might be genetic cases

where it's different. You know what I

mean? like that it's a harder barrier to

break through.

Okay, so now we are going to explain to

you the real reason why there is an

increase in autism because there is an

answer and then we're going to get into

why RFK is denying this and why truly

RFK sorry Junior is evil and completely

like you actually everyone needs to be

warned about what is happening as we go

into this time where there is I guess an

authoritarian government in America and

we just have to keep talking about that.

Okay, so the real reason is due to

diagnostics and the mega movement, maha

movement is going to be lying to you

about this and Nature magazine has come

out with a whole

essentially article constantly trying to

explain like okay we're under attack by

these politicians who are just going to

lie to you at this point because there's

there's no

this is the reason.

Okay.

So in the 1960s in order to be

considered autistic you had to be

non-verbal. So then obviously that would

be way less people being considered

autistic.

Yeah.

In the 1980s the diagnos diagnostics

started to include people who were

hyperfixated on specific things and who

couldn't really rein that in when they

were around other people. But also it's

important to know that in the 1980s in

order to have autism you had to be

diagnosed as a kid. You were not

allowed. There was no adult diagnosis.

And then also something kind of funny

was like in the article mentioned this

is when the Rainman came out like in

1988 I think was the movie

the Rainman is

oh

like I know it's a movie sorry it's like

someone who's like the way that he acted

was the way that people would have at

the time been like that's someone with

described an autistic person. Okay.

Um

in the 1990s uh there was the minimum

number of criteria uh got higher. So

essentially like it was easier to become

considered diagnos diagnosed with

autism. In like 1994 it changed

in 2013. Asberers was no longer

separated from autism. It was looped

into ASD. So all of a sudden now even

more people are becoming diagnosed with

ASD.

One study found that uh from 1980 to

2011 to 2011 60% of the increases were

all considered due to diagnostic

testing. Okay. And I think just simply

because more people are being diagnosed

with it for all the reasons you've just

stated doesn't mean like suddenly more

people like

no it's like if someone has aspberers

they're now considered they have there's

no such thing as they have ASD. So now

the ASD community has grown.

So then to consider what could have been

happening since 2011, the general

consensus is that it all has to do with

an increased awareness of autism, a

declining stigma among teachers and the

broad public broader public, increased

diagnostic testing and support services.

So now as a teacher, you're going to be

more vigilant about who might have an as

like ASD because there's more resources

for them. There's a way you can talk to

the parent and say, "And this is what we

can do for them to help them." In the

past, it would be like, "Your kid is

having problems in school. They're a

problematic child." Now, it's like, "Oh,

they actually might h have ASD. Here are

all the positive ways that we can help

you."

Um, and then on top of that, parents are

seeking diagnosis for their kids more

often than ever before, cuz when their

kid is being told when they're being

told by a teacher that their kid is

having problems, they immediately will

go to like the concept of ASD cuz we're

all talking about it. Another thing that

over the general trend overall is that

in the past it was considered that women

and little girls could not have autism

completely overlooked. So now only

recently is it become normalized to even

consider it for women and little girls

which is just another reason why you're

like science is so sometimes.

And then one of the biggest things that

they see now is just the ability for

adults to then get tested and decide if

they have ASD or not. In the past again,

it was only children and all of that is

encompassing what scientists and

researchers are calling an epidemic of

diagnosis, not an epidemic of autism.

Yes. So, one of the most important um

researchers has decided to try and say

it like that cuz he knows it's being

co-opted as an epidemic, but an epidemic

of diagnosis

and okay, so

RFK Jr. literally said that the increase

in the autism spectrum disorders that

they are seeing are severe, which is an

absolute lie. The increase in ASD

disorders that are causing all the

drastic changes in statistics are due to

minor versions of it where people still

have jobs, they're still working. And

then so RFK Jr. also said, "What's the

reason we need to figure out why this is

happening is cuz these people, they

can't hold a job, they can't pay taxes."

that really pissed off the ASD community

who was like that is complete

brainwashing of what this actually is

and is completely evil. And then on top

of that, they're now doing this $50

million

prize grant, this is what they're trying

to say, funding research to figure out

the cause of autism. while

simultaneously since the beginning of

2025 when Trump was elected, they've

decreased the actual research on autism

and potential treatments and ways to

help with it by $62 billion.

So again, they're lying. They're just

they're just sorry, not 62 million.

Sorry. They're giving a $50 million

grant while completely defunding the

research that talks about improving

these people's lives and actually

dealing with what happens. So they're

trying to pave a way. Okay, this is what

researchers and scientists are scared of

to bring in vaccine hesitancy to blame

it on vaccines

cuz they just want an answer

cuz they want an answer and they and RFK

Jr. is a liar. He's untrustworthy and

he's antiax and he wants to create an

antivax campaign and they want to use

autism as the reason. So they're trying

to create doubt by including decreasing

the grants. So, so many scientists who

are studying ASD and how to deal with it

in America have now lost their jobs and

lost all of their funding while they've

brought in this other source of funding

to only look at one aspect of it, which

is the cause. And a lot of autistic

people are really upset because they

some autistic people are like, "We don't

really care what caused this. We want to

figure out how we can live our lives

better." Like, what why are you focusing

on this? It's cuz they don't actually

care about people, which we you like

hopefully people are starting to

realize. They care about an agenda and

an authoritarian look at science. And

then there's so much more happening like

the person at the CDC resigning recently

after pressure from RFK Jr. to release

results about vaccines that were in that

were not true. So the science coming

from RFK Jr. and the American government

is extremely scary. It's completely made

up and it's about an authoritarian

regime taking over power in subtle ways.

And autism is being used as a scapegoat.

And the last thing I'll say is that

there's a specific committee called the

inter agency autism coordinating

committee which is supposed to allow

people who suffer from ASD to be in

these conversations. They have not been

consulted at all this year by the Trump

administration have been completely

ostracized from any of this discussion.

So the reason that we're going to have

to keep talking about and have episodes

like this is that we are living through

a really men like menacing time where

like autism is being used

and co-opted to push an antivax campaign

campaign which is actually just about

building individualistic looks at the

world to have an authoritarian regime

take over America. It's it's

yeah I mean it's happening it's

happening with much more than just

autism too. I think like there's many

issues like this that this

administration in America and movements

around the world

Canada and right movements

but specifically obviously like the US

government is such a big force in this

world and the people that are in it

using these kind of also like wedge

controversial issues to pass kinds of

legislation that matter to them for

forms of control who can have access to

funding and all these kinds of things.

Um, and it is like super nefarious and

scary. I the one thing I want to say is

like there is a much more interesting

conversation around like the age of

diagnosis. There's a book I started

reading about this that's fascinating

and it's like the question of whether is

this overdiagnosis a bad thing? Is it a

good thing? Like sometimes when

somebody's diagnosed can like the book's

kind of touching on like there's

somebody who didn't know they had this

specific issue. I can't remember. It's

like a very um niche disorder. They only

found it when they were older versus

somebody who found it when they were

younger and how that can change their

lives, right? And like of course these

are disorders that are on the cusp of

how much do they actually affect your

life? Like of course if you have extreme

ASD and people are going to notice and

you're going to need attention much

earlier. Um but just this idea of like

if I for example was and many people

make jokes on this podcast about me like

being on the spectrum somewhere. It's

like if I actually found out I was or if

you actually found out you have ADHD,

how does that change your life and is it

for the better always? Right.

Um and I think there's like interesting

conversations around like the world we

live in and how people self diagnose on

the internet and that of course makes

them go to their doctor and look for

these kinds of things and their doctors

might like

give them that test and maybe they have

it. So I I just think like there are

interesting conversations around there

and it's not to say shut that down.

No, no, of course not. But like it's

just so sad that we can't have new it's

going to be harder and harder to have

nuance conversations about anything in

regards to science when it's being

completely attacked which is the

frustrating part about this situation.

Okay. I feel like that was

honestly like all the information that

like is probably necessary for right now

and we will be continuing to have to

probably like talk about this. And it's

like I think it's worth saying it's

Friday September 19th when we recorded

this cuz like

lots of news changes.

Oh my god. just reading it. They're like

literally looking into like not giving

hepatitis B vaccines and And

anyways,

go watch our video on vaccines. By the

way, just came out because it will

address their effectiveness.

Yes. And maybe like send it to friends

and family. Oh my god. I don't know. We

like it's like it's so exhausting to be

back in a place like Oh my god. I just

want to talk about fun

I know. Well, our next episode will make

like more light-hearted and fun.

Yeah. You know, it's nice to go back and

forth.

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