inflateablefilth:

johnnycakesswheatson:

goldenheartedrose:

naturalmomma:

goddamnitreddas:

alexandraerin:

bluntlyblue:

autgamerswag:

naturalmomma:

Educate before you vaccinate, because it is about so much more than JUST autism.

How about stop putting other people’s children (and your own) at risk.

Because a child who contracts Polio and later dies is so much better than one with a developmental disability.

(Also the guy who made the whole vaccines causes Autism thing admitted to fraud, but of course we can’t include that now can we?)

Get out.

Oh look, another one to share the body count with Jenny ‘The Killer’ McCarthy

The awkward moment when you accidentally a horseman of the apocalypse.

If polio makes a fucking comeback because of these ignorant fucks I will literally shit all over their homes.

Everyone, please make sure everyone in your family is properly vaccinated, however you can. This doesn’t just affect you or your family, it affects everyone you meet. Herd immunity is important, and it’s a literal sin for people - usually children - to die from illnesses that would have been prevented by a vaccine.

It’s a literal sin for children to die from being injecting with a vaccine that may or may not even work, too. And for these huge vaccine manufacturers to get away with it, because they don’t pay out the millions of dollars a year to vaccine injured children… the government does.

http://www.naturalnews.com/036328_Merck_mumps_vaccine_False_Claims_Act.html  

Ooh, Natural News…now there’s a reliable source. /sarcasm.

Go take some science classes, then come back and apologize for spreading such false info.

also polio is back, i heard. it’s just not raging yet, but it’s going to be.

My husband’s family didn’t vaccinate because they were paranoid about epilepsy. Both of my sister in laws have miscarried because they contracted german measles while pregnant.

I also know a woman who almost died from complications of mumps because she wasn’t medically able to get the jab as a kid. Happened around the time the herd immunity effects that MMR jab study caused started becoming apparent. Because that’s what happens when herd immunity drops. People who need herd immunity to protect them get sick.

meeting someone with these views would make me about as angry as meeting someone that believes homeopathy should be paid for on the NHS

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If you haven’t watched Louis Theroux’s Extreme Love on autism, and you can, then iPlayer that mother.

Sympathetic and humanising portrayal. Pretty sad how more than one of the parents was of the “looking for a cure” school of parenting, but I find it hard to feel much malice against them.

YOU’VE GOTTA BE SHITTING ME, CHANNEL 4

Stop pretending to be a forward thinking, progressive channel when you do shit like this. People tried last year to get it stopped before it aired, including the heads of Tourette’s Scotland and National Autistic Society Soctland, as well as Lord David Putnam [see this Third Force News article].

In press releases and promotion, C4 described Tourette’s with “Tourette’s sufferers often uncontrollably shout swear words” (obviously bollocks, not true of a lot of people with Tourette’s) and - in the premise of the show - describe people with disabilities as undateable.

They’re not highlighting problems with our “image-obsessed world where people are too quick to make snap judgements or assumptions based on first impressions” [see C4 description] - they’re promoting false information about neuroatypical people/people with disabilities, and trying to claim fucking kudos for it.

I swear, I’m gonna hit someone.

I will end with a better quote though, from the director of NAS Scotland:

Far from being undateable, adults with autism have qualities that are very desirable in successful relationships, including loyalty and sincerity, openess and frankness

Not that dateability is what we should all be striving for, but still, this. A series that was genuinely about people with disabilities dating would be good. This feels like (especially given C4’s recent shite e.g. My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding) it’s gonna be shitty.

inherhipstheresrevolutions:

inflateablefilth:

marikunin:

estephx:

You don’t know how happy seeing this just made me guys!!! :’)

This is good news for autism detection: a new brain scan can detect autism at 6 months, when signs can start to manifest!

“This is the earliest study of brain development using neuro-imaging.By six months of age, even before the symptoms [of autism] emerge, the brain networks that connect different brain regions do not develop correctly.”

We’re excited to hear this, because as soon as a diagnosis is made, steps can be taken. Plus currently, about one in 110 children in theUnited States has autism, according to the latest CDC statistics, so a lot of kids could be helped.

“Usually we are picking up clinical [behavioral] symptoms at 18 months, some say even earlier… clearly they are picking up alterations in white matter as early as 6 months. It provides the best evidence to date that core features of autism are likely related to nerve biological connectivity. This is really compelling evidence that we should be focusing on connection and disconnection in the brain.”

An early diagnosis of autism leads to quicker interventions and, because this study points out problems with the brain’s connections before symptoms appear,it could lead to earlier interventions. If autism could be found in infants before symptoms are apparent, they could receivetherapies to stimulate early social development and possibly even prevent the start of symptoms!

Sounds like worthy research to us!

NO. IF A PERSON IS BORN AUTISTIC THEN THEY WILL ALWAYS BE AUTISTIC. SHUT THE FUCK UP.

Wtf is wrong with people? Sure, if I had kids i’d want to know if they were autistic pretty early on. But not to ‘fix’ them. I’d want to know so I could impart my survival techniques and prepare them for the allistic world.

We don’t need fixing.

^ I think it depends on how severe autism affects the child though (i.e when children have to be put into residential care for their own welfare/their siblings welfare, or when they’re extremely self-harming due to the horrific distress they experience during sensory overloads etc). I wonder if they’d be able to tell from this scan?

I’m pretty sure this is a misreporting of the science. Nothing from neuroscience that I’ve seen is actually a genuine claim that they can “detect” autism solely from brain scans.

As this isn’t linked to an article, it’s hard to say, but I’m calling (allistic) shenanigans.

Caveat: I’m not a neuroscientist, just an admiring observer of neuroscience and a sceptic of a lot of reporting of neuroscience.

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