https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/opinion/autism-diagnosis-rfk-vaccines.html?searchResultPosition=1 “As a scientist with #autism, I believe the rise in diagnoses is the result of greater awareness, better identification and a broader definition that now includes a range of neurodevelopmental..”
Alpträume sind was fieses, besonders wenn es Schulträume sind 
. Habt ihr auch noch Träume von der Schule und wenn ja, was träumt ihr so?
Ihr findet übrigens auch immer einen neuen Autistic-Hero-Girl Comic im Autismus Magazin! 
(https://autismus-dialog.de)
please help a #disabled, #queer woman with #groceries, menstrual products, transit fare, utilities, & medical #bills. she's really been struggling with all her bills. anything helps!
$155/299 needed ASAP
EMERGENCY MUTUAL AID POST 0/1150
y'all, I got my due date for the electric bill extended to the 26th but I have to pay in full by then
I need $1150 to pay them
if you can spare anything, please help, my autistic child, my two disabled partners, and me all depend on it
I'm really at a loss, please help 
Neurodivergent people have always been there (we just weren't 'looking' before)
https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/neurodivergent-people-have-always
The idea that the neurodiversity is a 'recent development' and hasn't been shaping all of human society forever is as wrong as it is unhelpful
My latest post explains
Seeing a lot of posts lately talking about parents not telling their kids about their #autism or #ADHD diagnosis. The thing is, it’s not only with #neurodivergency, the trend is much wider.
I went to rheumatologist recently because of joint pain. Mentioned that to my mom, and she’s like “Oh, you’ve been a frequent visitor of a rheumatologist when you were kid because of heart murmurs and some other things, until we moved and changed the clinic”.
I’m over forty. I have an adult kid who suffers joint pain. I have been diagnosed with valve insufficiency just a few years ago, and knowing that I had heart murmurs could have helped with my diagnosis.
Why am I only being told about these things now? How much more medical information I don’t have about myself?
I know, many people are opposed to the idea of some universal health info system because of privacy issues and the fear that the state or corporations being able to use it against them. But I feel that it’s incorrect approach.
We need to develop mechanisms against misuse of our data, but there should be some way for us ourselves to be able to access the info about our health.
It’s so fucked up that there are numerous people around us - parents, school personal, doctors, nurses - who have the info about us, about our mental and physical health, that we have no idea about, and that is left for their(!) judgment what to give us and what not.
It strikes me as absolutely absurd when I see doctors or some “patient’s rights groups” saying sone info should not be shown to people because they can “misinterpret” it. WTH? As long as I am legally considered mentally capable to take my own decisions: to vote, to manage my property, etc - I should be entitled to any info on me, and should be given indisputable right to make my own decisions based on that. No one should take decisions concerning my health on my regard.
I don’t understand why people in general are ok with that. It scares me actually to see how widely acceptable that is in the society.
Neurodivergent people have always been there (we just weren't 'looking' before)
https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/neurodivergent-people-have-always
The idea that the neurodiversity is a 'recent development' and hasn't been shaping all of human society forever is as wrong as it is unhelpful
My latest post explains
Making America Sicker and More Ignorant Again
The NIH just cut research grants on dozens of studies, many already in progress, on vaccine hesitancy and strategies to increase vaccine uptake.
Meanwhile, RFKJr's CDC is resurrecting the long disproven link began vaccines and autism and calling for new studies on this already scientifically resolved non issue.
And at the same time, RFKJr is telling people to take snake oil, I mean codfish oil, and antibiotics, to combat measles, though neither of which has any efficacy for that disease.
Are content warnings for pictures with eye contact "performative allyship"? Honest question.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/18x1rdm/eye_contact_cws_question_to_autistic_people/
National Cancer Institute Employees Can’t Publish Information on These Topics Without Special Approval
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Vaccines. Fluoride. Autism. Communications involving these and 20 other “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The kindle version of my book is still 1.99 until March 11th! 2 days left!
A Guide to Autism and Psychosis
https://mybook.to/autpsychosisguide
#ActuallyAutistic #autism #Autistic #ADHD #AuDHD #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #MentalHealth @actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy @mentalhealth@a.gup.pe @mentalhealth@newsmast.community @mentalhealth@lemmy.world @bookstodon
I feel deja vu like we did this before...
CDC is apparently going to look for link between vaccines and autism because apparently that is the important thing, not curing cancer or saving lives. It's just going to lead to eugenics because when you set out to try to prove something you believe, you'll construct a link. This is exactly how eugenics works. It is not scientific in the least. (https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-cdc-plans-study-into-vaccines-autism-sources-say-2025-03-07/)
In more news from the #Idiocracy:
Reuters Exclusive
The #CDC is planning a large study into potential connections between #vaccines & #autism, …despite EXTENSIVE scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.
It is *unclear* whether US #RFKJr, who has long promoted #AntiVax views, is involved…or how it would be carried out. The CDC & the #HHS were not available for comment.
#USpol #science #medicine #PublicHealth #ConspiracyTheories
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-cdc-plans-study-into-vaccines-autism-sources-say-2025-03-07/
In a full-on #antivax #ConspiracyTheory moment, #Trump vowed again to figure out “what is going on” with high rates of #autism, by tasking his #health secy, #RFKJr, w/the responsibility. This question has been a focus for Trump since his first term — & is a source of concern for Democrats & in the #PublicHealth community.
Here is the Venn diagram showing the overlap of ADHD and Autism symptoms. The alt text doesn't fit so I will include it in the replies
"Until 2013, autism and ADHD couldn’t be diagnosed in the same person. Today, researchers have found that there is a 50 to 70 per cent crossover between these neurodevelopmental conditions, which is increasingly being referred to as AuDHD."
#LeanneMaskell, 2024
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I'm getting a lot out of the Neurodivergent Insights newsletter by Dr. Megan Anna Neff. For example, this post about the overlap of ADHD and autism:
https://neurodivergentinsights.com/misdiagnosis-monday/adhd-vs-autism/
Dr. Neff is herself AuDHD who turned her hyperfocus on her neurotype into a PhD in psychology. She's also raising a neurodivergent kid with strong PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance, which she calls Pervasive Drive for Autonomy):
https://neurodivergentinsights.com/blog/pda-or-demand-avoidance/
