You mean to tell me that my father, a man who tinkers on old watches all day long and has 100 other introverted hobbies; and my mother, a woman who knows every fact about any type of animal and is socially awkward so she spends her days gardening are autistic?????
5 months ago | 159
Please don’t tell my dad. He’d be upset to find out his genes had anything to do with it! 😂😂
5 months ago | 20
Autism can show up from de-novo mutations, but that's still a genetic cause (just not by heredity).
5 months ago | 34
Woulda got away with it too if it wasn’t for you meddling 🧐 kids!!
5 months ago | 6
The way my autistic father was talking to me, his autistic child, how weird the high percentage of autistic people in the world was rn as if he himself has not gone out of his way to put me here
5 months ago | 3
It makes me nervous that they will figure this out and start sterilizing autistic girls and young women, especially those living in institutions or already having abdominal surgery, such as appendectomies and Caesarean sections. My great-great aunt was forcibly sterilized after being deafened by measles at age 9, and my AuDHD daughter is about to turn 8! 😬
5 months ago | 69
This may be inappropriate but "The autism is strong in my family. My father has it. I have it. And my sister has it" That was for the reference. I'm autistic and I don't think it's a family traits even if my brother passion for capybaras is prett huge.
5 months ago | 5
Nonono please don’t make RFK aware of this, let him keep thinking it’s vaccines or vegetable oil or whatever the hell crank shit he believes. If he knows the truth I fear whatever “cure” he comes up with might be a bit… T4, if yknow what I mean
5 months ago | 1
Like any animal, we humans adapt to our environment. Autism is an adaptation that involves some rather extreme trade-offs. I think the reason rates of autism are on such a sharp incline is not simply due to increased awareness or over-diagnosis, but the result of our modern environment signaling to some as-yet unknown mechanism to create more people with those trade-offs. Perhaps not too dissimilar to how ant colonies and bee hives create more of the caste that they need through pheromonal communication.
5 months ago | 2
Autistic AF
Who's gonna tell him (RFK)?
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