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The United States—which as of 2011 had the highest first-day infant death rate in the industrialized world124—might succumb to autism, becoming a cautionary example for other countries. The autism rate here has doubled an average of every five years since 1970. At this rate, the majority of American boys will be autistic by 2036, and by around 2045... See more
Tao Lin • The Story of Autism: How We Got Here, How We Heal
Newport Institute, a young adult mental health inpatient treatment center, has recently begun recruiting people suffering from “brainrot.” On its website, the Institute encourages parents whose children suffer from “screen dependency” and “digital addiction” to consider treatment plans at one of its locations across the country.
Jessica Roy • If You Know What ‘Brainrot’ Means, You Might Already Have It
Autism as a Linguistically Created Disorder
open.substack.com
I swear to god I've been having this conversation at least once a month for the last 15 years, society is not ready for the autism eugenicists and they are all over the bay area, making lots of money and funnelling it into creating autism super soldiers
Christianity On The Spectrumx.comIn 1999, California legislature issued a one million-dollar emergency grant to UC Davis’s MIND Institute to investigate the 273 percent rise in autism in the state from 1987 to 1999. The resulting 70-page report stated that the rise was not due to “loosening in criteria’’ or “misclassification,” and that most autistic children “did not have a... See more
The Story of Autism: How We Got Here, How We Heal
RFK Jr. delivers a devastating rebuttal to the claim that rising autism rates are simply a matter of "better diagnosis." He challenges us to confront an uncomfortable truth: this is a modern epidemic.
He speaks from a position of deep, personal historical context. In the 1960s and 70s, he was immersed in communities... See more
Camusx.comUnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism
Annie Waldmanpropublica.org
By 2020, around 349 per 10,000 U.S. children (and 498 per 10,000 boys, who are affected around 4 times as often as girls) aged 3 to 17 were autistic.45 The accelerating, exponential rise—3,000 percent from 1970 to 1995, 18,000 percent from 1995 to 2020—is a large problem for the genetic theory. If autism was mostly genetic, rates would be... See more