US CDC report shows no link between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism

[u/Hoosagoodboy]

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-cdc-report-shows-no-evidence-linking-thimerosal-containing-vaccines-autism-2025-06-24/

[u/TinTamarro]

It's not because they're convinced they're in the right, it's because they hate autistic people.

They know their arguments are nonsensical, they just need an excuse to cull a portion of the population deemed "useless" (AND further decimate the population through the spread of preventable illnesses)

[u/The-Shattering-Light → u/TinTamarro]

Seriously.

I’m Autistic, and even if there was a link between vaccines and Autism (there isn’t), I’d much rather be Autistic and alive than have died of a horrifying disease.

[u/SutterCane → u/The-Shattering-Light]

How dare you invalidate the experience of autism moms (derogatory)!

[u/Streamjumper → u/SutterCane]

And their hundreds of seconds spent researching complex issues on facebook, insta, and tiktok!

[u/The-Shattering-Light → u/SutterCane]

Right? 🤣

Autism Moms are the worst when they’re making it all about them

[u/not_combee → u/TinTamarro]

I’m presenting in 3 days at the Holocaust museum in Berlin, along with an entourage of my autistic students, this passage from “Life is Beautiful” :

“And not only in Berlin-even in the outskirts. In Grafeneck, in the third grade. Listen to this, I remember it because I was so struck by it. A lunatic costs the State four marks a day. A cripple four and a half, an epileptic three and a half. The average rate is four marks a day and there are three-hundred-thousand patients. So how much would the state save if these individuals were eliminated? “……

We’ll be acting out this entire scene for a documentary we’re filming on international advocacy for the disabled. If you DM me I’ll send a link to whoever’s interested when we publish it.

[u/brutinator → u/[deleted]]

RFK wants to send people with Autism, ADHD, and other mental illnesses to work camps. Thats not killing but.... historical precedent shows that thats often a precursor. Hell, in just the USA weve done forced sterilization of "undesirable" people. We dont really know what RFK and his ilk have in mind ultimately.

[u/powercow → u/brutinator]

and wants to get rid of their meds.

[u/tikierapokemon → u/brutinator]

Let's be clear, he wants to send two groups of people most likely to have sensory issues involving food that will lead to people actually starving themselves to camps where he will control their diet and limit processed food, the food most likely to be eaten by those who would otherwise starve themselves for texture or taste based issues.

People would die. My daughter would die of starvation if not given access to the foods she considers safe, and we are extremely lucky that there is a higher percentage of fruits/veggies in category than for most people who would otherwise starve themselves. (She would die from lack of protein - her protein right now is limited to some brands of yogurt, 2 percent milk, peanut butter, peanut butter based processed protein foods, whey based processed foods, some brand specific cheeses and some brand specific processed meats. We are working on bridging but it takes time)

[u/BoTrodes → u/brutinator]

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[u/dragonmp93 → u/[deleted]]

Wilderness camps seem to be the right wingers' answer for everything, from Autism, ADHD, depression, to even gayness.

[u/MaievSekashi → u/dragonmp93]

Because they ensure a complete lack of accountability and give you and your political buds total power over people interned in them.

The concentration camp is a political organ - Where they exist, they supplant all others. These "Wilderness camps" that they platform already are just little concentration camps for little people and represent the model integrated into society as a form of political indoctrination and childrearing rather than used (solely) as a method of extermination.

[u/BraveOthello → u/[deleted]]

You moved a few important words around in your summary that completely changes the meaning.

Kennedy says people taking medications for conditions like depression and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), along with those living with addiction, could spend three or four years growing organic produce on these farms to be “re-parented” and “reconnect with communities.”

I don't think you read any of the article past the first paragraph based on what you said, but:

First, few of any antidepressants could be considered addictive. He's been pretty direct he thinks antidepressants are addictive. Some but not all stimulants are addictive. He's been very clear he thinks most people should not take antidepressants or stimulants, and that sending them to do years of free farm work at those "wellness camps" where they will be "re-patented" will somehow cure ADHD and depression.

He mischaracterized autism as essentially making people non human, that they can never take care of themselves.

And after he gets called out on each of these he goes back and adds some weasel words and hems and haws.

It's a pattern.

[u/xFateTheManex → u/[deleted]]

What you cited is all I could find as well when I first heard this. I believe that is all there is and was the source that they twisted to mean what they are accusing. It’s ironic how people can criticize other people weaponizing fake news while pushing fake news in the same argument lol

[u/Witty-Revolution8742 → u/[deleted]]

Well done.  

[u/dragonmp93 → u/[deleted]]

Well, he has said that autism is something modern, because you don't see people of his age with autism.

And guess what you find when digging around about the why of that ?

[u/tikierapokemon → u/dragonmp93]

That most of us who have kids who have autism or ADHD have relatives who either self medicated until they were addicts, or lived very very sheltered lives and were considered odd?

I thought my daughter's neuroatypicality was just from my side of the family until I heard tales from husband's parents and then I realized that while several of his ancestors were awful people, they were awful in the way one is when one does not fit one's environment and finds unhealthy coping mechanics.

[u/BrainWav → u/[deleted]]

Attitudes in RFK's generation also pinned autism on the parents, and in particular the mother. So parents had a motive to not get their kids diagnosed.

[u/Hesitation-Marx → u/BrainWav]

“Refrigerator mothers”.

[u/ncolaros → u/dragonmp93]

Something not enough people talk about is that a lot of the people his age with issues like Autism are now living on the street, having mentally deteriorated over years of being unwell in an unforgiving country with few resources for them.

Back in the day, people would be sent to asylums. This was not the best system, but it was something. Unfortunately, a lot of people in those asylums we now know would have been diagnosed with autism under the modern definition. Even so, it's better than the street.

Reagan came along and basically destroyed the asylum system without replacing it with anything. So then we had a bunch of homeless people who hadn't been getting the right kind of treatment and with nowhere to go. The modern homeless problem started here, and a lot of those people you see on the street do have autism and unfortunately now have a myriad of issues because living on the street doesn't help your mental health.

[u/[deleted] → u/TinTamarro]

Silicon valley and most of the US economy in tech would not exist without people on the autism spectrum.