Comment on Discussion Thread 🪴 Tuesday 23 September 2025
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Watching the US “autism” furphy very very closely. Inlaws have fallen - well not full magat, but very very adjacent. Very adjacent
They also have an ASD daughter, ASD daughter in law (me) ADHD son and an AuADHD granddaughter.
We are all watching them very. Very. Closely.
(Ironic thing is we all fucking know my FIL is asd as well, he’s just low support)
I saw something about it pop up, were they linking paracetamol to autism? Or saying it was alright for pregnant women to take? Not people I’d take health advice from anyway.
And I think neurotypical people, or at least people who don’t realise they have something, can start having weird opinions when they have a lot of kids on the spectrum. They probably think, ‘nothing’s wrong with me, what made my kids this way?’ And then the Youtube research begins.
Thing is, apart from the granddaughter we were all very late diagnosed. As in “in our 40’s”. And like these things tend to do, it tobogganed, I found out first, His Lordship always suspected he was ADHD, but not enough to cause issues until we exceeded his abilities and some Bad Things happened and I told him he was gonna get tested or he’d be a single man wearing his own bum as a hat (paraphrased). Then SIL realised from observance that hey you can be ND and …not be “disabled” (lotta internalised abelism in that family which is also why His Lordship took so long to get diagnosed) and WHOOPS, there we are. Which also allowed her and her husband to identify a lot of things in one of their daughters and get her to a psychiatrist and learning how to teach her emotional regulation and stimulus control before she turned into the betrayed-feeling anger ball the rest of us are.
I so relate to this (particularly the ‘betrayed-feeling anger ball’ bit, lol). My kid got diagnosed in his early teens, which meant I did a heap of research to help him and to learn more about it, and also discovered how it presents differently in girls. Which explains a lot about my experiences as a child. Also in hindsight, my dad very clearly had asbergers (again undiagnosed - he was just ‘smart and eccentric’, as autism wasn’t a thing when he was young).
But maybe it was all just too much tylenol
there is no tylenol in Australia
how does the trump admin explain autism in countries where tylenol is not sold
the corrupt trump admin are relying on the experts and other people to debunk the lies, this will help the share prices rebound
I’d be hells surprised, everyone agrees in hindsight my grandfather was autistic af, and he was born 30 years before paracetamol was available in Australia
Or (regardless of diagnosis) it was just being difficult and bad 🙃
the admin didn’t mention paracetamol or acetaminophen, they have only mentioned the brand name of tylenol
a famous product
I just read the cliff notes on the Guardian and have no idea where to even fucking begin.
I’d start with quoting Amy Wong. “It’s this year’s shark cartilage enema!”
it’s just another made up drama to manipulate the stock prices
you can guarantee trump, uday and qusay , maybe the muppet, and all their corrupt mates have invested and will real hundreds of millions
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Ahh fuck. I had an actual look and the medicalisation of autism… the focus on “not letting it happen anymore” is probably going to lead to more aggressive attempts to “cure autism” (ABA, bleach, chelation) and maybe even eugenics.
I don’t even have a snarky remark for this. Captain Crunchy and the Cheeto are going to spearhead abusing and killing neurodivergent and disabled people at a higher rate than already happens.
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 day ago
oh yeah, there was a reason why my first reaction in another thread was the words “Aktion T4”
looking forward to seeing this mob eventually swinging from something.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Uh huh. Not to Godwin but as they say ‘those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it’.
Let’s hope they get a chance to emulate their idols. I hear minigolf is a great choice for a downstairs rumpus room…
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Something something so intellectually bereft they can’t even come up with their own fascist takeover