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   Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 00:39:47 JST Miakoda

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   All the more reason for us to never shut up!

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     Kevin Davy (pathfinder@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 00:39:48 JST Kevin Davy

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     Being autistic, like being trans, is the great unknowable. We are literally alien to them and their ability to understand. It makes us an obvious wedge to crack open the door to all sorts of horrors.
     The dawning truth thst they are a hell of a lot more of us than realised, really isn't helping that fear. It also reveals a reality of existence that lies outside their medical models and the greedy reach of the industries that have grown to feed off that model.
     Hence all the crap about us being over diagnosed. There is a danger of them losing control of us and the conversation about us and that is something they can't tolerate.

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     <undef> (undefined_variable@mementomori.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 00:39:49 JST <undef>

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     @pathfinder @actuallyautistic I think the biggest mistake people are making is that they think this is going to be a US thing. It's not, it's going to spread, as illustrated already by the Cass report you mentioned. The same thing is going to happen with autism. Already we're seeing the media hopping on the "it's overdiagnosed" bandwagon even in Europe.

     I joke a lot, that's my brain's way to process stuff. Even when I don't yet consciously know that I've noticed something, some pattern developing, I'm already joking about it. For awhile, I've been joking about me been sent to a camp. Except, I don't think it's a joke anymore. I'm starting to expect it for real. Even here in Europe.

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     Kevin Davy (pathfinder@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 00:39:50 JST Kevin Davy

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     I think we've probably all heard of Mr brain-worm's desire to look into the link between autism and vaccination, and thought nothing good of it. This, despite the fact that even the remotest possibilities of such a link have already been vigorously kicked to death and stomped deeply into the earth of, "not a fucking chance", by countless existing and extremely reputable studies. But, this latest announcement, that they will find the cause of autism itself, to my mind, seems to cast all of this into an even darker light.
     
     By establishing such a ridiculously short time frame to be able to a come to a "guaranteed" conclusion, in partnership with nebulous "worldwide" sources, and within a framework that clearly indicates that they have already decided that it will be some sort of "artificial" cause, this smacks of a clear stitch up. In fact, the sort of stitch up that will make the Cass report* look like the most scholarly balanced study known to mankind. In fact, the only thing that really seems to be in question, is what cause for it they have already decided to put forward.

     If whatever it is, is just to be the silver bullet they wish to use to kill off vaccinations in general, then that will be bad, and obviously ridiculous, enough. But, if it is going to be something else, that fits in even more neatly into Mr Brain-worm's hatred of not only vaccination, but it would seem anything even remotely dealing with modern medicine, and in fact modern life, then it could be truly devastating. Given the wrecking ball they are already taking to the entirety of the medical and academic authorities and institutions, I can't help feeling that the way this could go, could be extremely dark indeed. Indeed, it could be the stepping stone they intend to use to eliminate so many of the safety nets of health and mental care, that so many rely on and that are in many respects the cornerstones of citizen welfare.

     I could be wrong, and I hope I am, but, this would be inline with so much of what this government seems to be aiming for. The reduction of people into worker units, who are trapped by the necessities of a lack of education and options, into doing so for minimal return, especially in terms of any real pay and continued health. Those simply being the carrots that are forever dangled before them, to keep them working on. A new class of indentured servitude, if you will, just like the good old days they seem to love.

     As I said, I could be wrong. In fact, I really, really, hope I am.

     #Autism
     #ActuallyAutistic

     * Cass report - For those who don't know, a British study presented to the former government and still supported by the current one, on Trans issues and used by them to further their transphobic policy decisions. It has been widely debunked by many other studies and a vast number of medical organisations, for its lack of representation and the way it ignored and cherry-picked the information within it, to create a highly one-sided and misleading conclusion.

     https://gizmodo.com/secretary-brain-worm-rfk-jr-tells-trump-well-know-the-cause-of-autism-by-fall-2000587763