”We asked 10 autistic people if they’d drunken milk before and 100% said yes, therefore more milk causes autism!“ - peta, probably.
I know “what shall we do with the drunken sailor” I just only put the one word to make it clear what I meant
also not to be rude it’s minor and I’ve done it myself plenty but as far as I can tell there’s no indication of their gender or pronouns in their bio or comment history should put they not he sorry if you know them from somewhere else don’t mean it to sound aggressive I’ve unconsciously assumed people on the internet are guys too before
Am I the only Autist who is extremely offended by people saying “this or that” causes Autism?
It’s annoying when corporations try to use the condition as a tool to further their bullshit arguments.
You are absolutely right to be offended. I have neurodivergent people in my family. I love them dearly. I wouldn’t want them to be any different. My father (likely) had autism. He was a professor who got invited to lecture at the Sorbonne and wrote something like 30 books. My brother has autism. He makes far more money than I do because he’s a really good coder and he’s happily married. Neurodivergent people can live lives as full of success and happiness (and lack of success and unhappiness) as anyone else. They just do it differently.
Acting like autism is some sort of horror that parents should fear is disgusting.
On my way to work, there’s a house I always pass with an “autistic child” sign, a yellow square sign, next to the road. I just feel offended seeing it. Even if the individual in question could be low functioning, inattentive, actually at risk of walking into the street or something, that sign has probably been there past their childhood into adulthood, and a sign to announce your child’s autism to drivers is just… something else.
If that was statistically significantly true, Sweden would be autism central. We have since sometime in the 70’s been giving our children milk with every meal.
When I was growing up through the 90s in America this was a pretty normal thing too. I drank a lot of milk as a child. Like I have a lot of anxiety now but other than liking trains I don’t really seem that autistic.
We had a huge campaign for kids to drink milk in the 80s and 90s. There was the ‘Milk: It does the body good’ ads, which became a pop culture sensation, and then they did the “where’s your mustache” ads where they had all kinds of supermodels and other celebrities drinking milk and showing a milk mustache.
Of course, the dairy industry is hugely subsidized in the U.S.
Basically, everyone in the U.S. born between about 1975 and 2005 should be autistic.
I hope the evidence is more substantial than the “link” between vaccines and autism…
Considering it’s from peta, there’s roughly a 100% chance it’s just total bullshit.
100% of autistic people who have lived past 30 have breathed air and drank water, but nobody is out here drawing the link between air and water…. The real danger.
This was what lead to the idea that vaccines caused autism, Peta was pushing this crap in the 90s.
I wouldn’t be surprised if PETA was secretly funded by meat companies as a way to make the image of vegans look bad
Interesting take. I wonder which aspects of their business you have in mind?
As much as I think campaigns like this are counterproductive to the animal rights agenda, I am strongly in favour of euthanasia, even mass euthanasia, as a responsible and humane solution to woefully irresponsible human industry. I believe that life is without intrinsic value, so it is straightforward to me that a life of suffering is worse than simply not existing.
I’ve been vegan for around 25 years, and in this time I’ve been interrogated about my beliefs enough times to feel confident saying folks tend to struggle more with the latter. Take, for example, the way no-kill shelters (or even rescue groups) tend to get sanctimonious at traditional shelters - the very same shelters they look to when they find themselves facing tasks too burdensome. btw, bbq fundraiser, guys!!
So, as long as we aren’t including this utterly soul-rending but critical work in our judgement of PETA, I think I’m with you.
