Dwain Northey (Gen X)

Autism spectrum disorder, or simply autism, is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by repetitive, restricted, and inflexible patterns of behavior, interests, and activities, as well as difficulties in social interaction and social communication.

As of yet these is no know cause for Autism, there is a cry that there are more people with autism today than ever before and if your of my generation there is a good reason for that. There are more tests for autism now than there were 40 years ago. We know now it’s spectrum, that kid that you thought was slow in school most likely was on the spectrum but no one knew or tested for it.

No kids when I was in school had ADHD because it’s wasn’t a diagnosed problem, they were just hyperactive kids that were easily distracted. So since the problem is more recognized and tested for there is more of it, crazy how that works.

In the early days of COVID-19, Donald didn’t want there to be testing because if no one tested for it then there were no cases which makes absolutely no sense. In the same vein if you stop doing pregnancy tests, then there would be no pregnancies I guess.

Back to autism, RFK Junior has decided as his position as secretary of HHS that he’s gonna go back on his crusade to blame vaccines for autism. Seemingly unaware that because we have more test for autism, and there are different spectrums of autism that that is the primary reason that there are more cases of autism. Granted there may be some environmental things that are causing these disorders, like increased, focusing of microwaves and things like that which no one has tested for, but there has been no proof in the 30 years of research that vaccines have caused autism in anyway.

We need to do more to help those that do have autism integrate into society rather than chasing our tails trying to link autism to the medical community of today, pretending that it did not exist in the past.