”We asked 10 autistic people if they’d drunken milk before and 100% said yes, therefore more milk causes autism!“ - peta, probably.
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Am I the only Autist who is extremely offended by people saying "this or that" causes Autism?
It's annoying when corporations try to use the condition as a tool to further their bullshit arguments.
You should be offended, and PETA has been doing this forever to make people think eating animal or animal products is bad. But their assertion also implies autism is a negative thing, which is untrue.
It also insinuates that autism is a disease even though we now know it isn't.
You are absolutely right to be offended. I have neurodivergent people in my family. I love them dearly. I wouldn't want them to be any different. My father (likely) had autism. He was a professor who got invited to lecture at the Sorbonne and wrote something like 30 books. My brother has autism. He makes far more money than I do because he's a really good coder and he's happily married. Neurodivergent people can live lives as full of success and happiness (and lack of success and unhappiness) as anyone else. They just do it differently.
Acting like autism is some sort of horror that parents should fear is disgusting.
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it's ironic because arguably society "causes" autism, if society wasn't so fucked then things like autism and ADHD would just be quirks to take into account.
"oh yeah mary doesn't like speaking to strangers so we tend to hang out together so it's easier for her"
If that was statistically significantly true, Sweden would be autism central. We have since sometime in the 70's been giving our children milk with every meal.
When I was growing up through the 90s in America this was a pretty normal thing too. I drank a lot of milk as a child. Like I have a lot of anxiety now but other than liking trains I don't really seem that autistic.
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I hope the evidence is more substantial than the “link” between vaccines and autism…
Considering it's from peta, there's roughly a 100% chance it's just total bullshit.
105% with a tolerance of 5%
Potentially 110%?
100% of autistic people who have lived past 30 have breathed air and drank water, but nobody is out here drawing the link between air and water…. The real danger.
Thousands of people got severely exposed to Dihydrogen Monoxide during 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and 2005 Hurricane Katrina, and subsequently died! It's frankly baffling that people don't talk more about this!
This was what lead to the idea that vaccines caused autism, Peta was pushing this crap in the 90s.
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It's peta, so probably not.
I wouldn't be surprised if PETA was secretly funded by meat companies as a way to make the image of vegans look bad
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studies have shown a link
Is a phrase that could mean anything and is, therefore, meaningless
Holy shit. That’s bad. There were some very poor quality studies done on whether autistic people had a worse inflammatory reaction to A1 proteins than allistic people ( https://atypicalscience.org/a1-beta-casein/ ) but they were certainly not implying that milk causes autism or that autism has a “cause” that should be avoided.
Dude aside from the wack implication that you can develop autism, this is super fuckin... Like i dont wanna say ableist cause i dont view autism as a disability. obviously it can be but literally anything severe enough can be a disability, but i digress. This ad is just super fuckin agressive to people on the spectrum for no reason. I knew peta was bad but goddamn
Well, it's a disorder, it's right in the name.
If people "liked" it, they wouldn't be taking meds to help them function.
I'm not hating, just think we should take things for what they are
Edit: sorry, thought we were talking about ADHD
There are no meds for "autism", there are meds for health issues that autistic people are more likely to have, which autistic people shouldn't take if they don't have those health issues.
As for it being categorized as a disorder.
Homosexuality was classified as a mental disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) beginning with the first edition, published in 1952 by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).
Would you have said "I'm not hating on homosexuals, just think we should take things for what they are" in 1952?
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I take medication for my ADHD, not my autism. My autism is a part of who I am. ADHD is just annoying.
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It's bigoted is what it is. Bigoted against neurodivergent people. Who, as you say, are not disabled.
A subset are disabled many because of how society has treated them.
I have done my own study and I also found a link between cows milk and autism. They are both on this image. Spooky stuff.
If peta was a person I would like to punch them
I found a link between milk and death.
Everyone who has ever drank milk has, or will, die.
Ergo, drinking milk is deadly.
Dihydrogen Monoxide is proven to be toxic to humans when injected and kills thousands of people every year.
Our waterways are completely riddled with this dangerous substance.
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Fuck you peta
Btw this peta campaign was from 2008.
Frowns in lactose intolerant
Well shit, guess here I go with the vaccines again
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What the fuck. And I thought 'vaccines cause autism' was stupid and offensive.
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