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Skittles

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22. wow, another post worth of its own thread

Reply to LiberalArkie (Reply #5)

Sat Sep 27, 2025, 03:44 PM

Sep 2025

yes, as the sister of a severely autistic younger brother it is heartbreaking to realize how such folk were treated in the past and so disgusting to see what is going on now - what Trump and RFJ Jr are doing is pretty much the GOP playbook now - find a target and demonize them.......they've done it to POC, immigrants, LGBTQ, and now anyone on the Spectrum........seems to me like none of those folk are the issue, MAGA assholes are the real problem

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FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary tells Scripps News 'I don't think autism is genetic' [View all] BumRushDaShow Sep 2025 OP

leucovorin-I have no doubt that some Republicans are making a ton of money off this stuff Walleye Sep 2025 #1

You didn't see them generations ago bc they were warehoused in insane asylums. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2025 #2

Exactly. Timeflyer Sep 2025 #6

Or the family attic Hekate Sep 2025 #29

Or died. RedArkGuy Sep 2025 #38

it wasn't REPORTED as much generations ago Skittles Sep 2025 #3

Yes and just lived out their lives "Hermits" and 'Non-social" or "Anti-social" or "Non-conformists" LiberalArkie Sep 2025 #5

wow, another post worth of its own thread Skittles Sep 2025 #22

Something I did not figure out until about a year ago, A lot of us can not say NO. LiberalArkie Sep 2025 #24

had never thought of that Skittles Sep 2025 #26

You must tell him as most guys do not know or realize it. I wondered most of my life why I could not keep anything LiberalArkie Sep 2025 #30

alas my brother passed in 2021 Skittles Sep 2025 #33

I am so sorry to hear that. LiberalArkie Sep 2025 #41

Why? Cirsium Sep 2025 #28

For personal reasons............... Lovie777 Sep 2025 #4

same Skittles Sep 2025 #23

What?! yardwork Sep 2025 #7

Apparently he has never heard of science or history. mwmisses4289 Sep 2025 #8

Good Lord. yardwork Sep 2025 #9

It's not in their "world" (that they are willing to admit to) BumRushDaShow Sep 2025 #10

Dr. Malarky Marthe48 Sep 2025 #11

There is definitely a strong genetic component. High-functioning autism runs in our family across 4 generations Martin68 Sep 2025 #12

It's definitely a continuum. yardwork Sep 2025 #16

"I don't believe" PSPS Sep 2025 #13

Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack, BootinUp Sep 2025 #14

Quack back at ya. twodogsbarking Sep 2025 #15

The modern-day phenomenon liberalgunwilltravel Sep 2025 #17

I think there is a genetic component NH Ethylene Sep 2025 #18

Autism is not new. ananda Sep 2025 #19

But recognition and diagnosis have changed drastically over the years. eppur_se_muova Sep 2025 #31

I don't exactly consider autism a defect. ananda Sep 2025 #32

Call it a 'condition', then. Whatever you call it, it is something which only slowly came to be recognized. eppur_se_muova Sep 2025 #34

Of course it exists. ananda Sep 2025 #35

This message was self-deleted by its author valleyrogue Sep 2025 #37

What I don't understand is why a high functioning and low functioning autism are both autism womanofthehills Sep 2025 #36

He is shockingly uninformed. Tanuki Sep 2025 #20

I would have been 14. I remember that article vividly. 3catwoman3 Sep 2025 #21

I don't think he knows what he's talking about struggle4progress Sep 2025 #25

Rosemary Kennedy was given a frontal chelsea0011 Sep 2025 #27

We are different. Aussie105 Sep 2025 #39

Sigh lonely bird Sep 2025 #40