”We asked 10 autistic people if they’d drunken milk before and 100% said yes, therefore more milk causes autism!“ - peta, probably.
Peta actually in the 90s.
drunken
It is a word, but not one he meant lol
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
I kinda just put it there automatically without thinking. Didn’t mean to misgender anyone, in case I did, sorry
yeah that’s what I thought I didn’t think it was midgendering or anything like I said I’ve done the same
Love your way of pointing out the accidental gendering. These are exactly the thoughts that are in my head when I want to correct someone on this.
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 should be offended, and PETA has been doing this forever to make people think eating animal or animal products is bad. But their assertion also implies autism is a negative thing, which is untrue.
It also insinuates that autism is a disease even though we now know it isn’t.
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.
I would feel the same way. What the hell is wrong with just a Caution: Children sign?
it’s ironic because arguably society “causes” autism, if society wasn’t so fucked then things like autism and ADHD would just be quirks to take into account.
“oh yeah mary doesn’t like speaking to strangers so we tend to hang out together so it’s easier for her”
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.
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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.
People also said that about “Just Stop Oil”
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.
105% with a tolerance of 5%
Potentially 110%?
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.
Thousands of people got severely exposed to Dihydrogen Monoxide during 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and 2005 Hurricane Katrina, and subsequently died! It’s frankly baffling that people don’t talk more about this!
This was what lead to the idea that vaccines caused autism, Peta was pushing this crap in the 90s.
I’ve never heard peta mentioned in this context. Source?
These are all about the supposed link between milk and autism, not vaccines and autism.
I’ve realized that I poorly worded my earlier post, I meant that the claim that milk causing autism inspired the later claimed that vaccines cause autism, it was the first popularized claim that X consumable caused autism as far as I know of.
It’s peta, so probably not.
studies have shown a link
Is a phrase that could mean anything and is, therefore, meaningless
Autistic people like milk: studies show a link.
My brother is autistic and a vegan. Ball’s in your court, PETA.
what can i say, it’s got a good texture
Holy shit. That’s bad. There were some very poor quality studies done on whether autistic people had a worse inflammatory reaction to A1 proteins than allistic people ( https://atypicalscience.org/a1-beta-casein/ ) but they were certainly not implying that milk causes autism or that autism has a “cause” that should be avoided.
Dude aside from the wack implication that you can develop autism, this is super fuckin… Like i dont wanna say ableist cause i dont view autism as a disability. obviously it can be but literally anything severe enough can be a disability, but i digress. This ad is just super fuckin agressive to people on the spectrum for no reason. I knew peta was bad but goddamn
Well, it’s a disorder, it’s right in the name.
If people “liked” it, they wouldn’t be taking meds to help them function.
I’m not hating, just think we should take things for what they are
Edit: sorry, thought we were talking about ADHD
There are no meds for “autism”, there are meds for health issues that autistic people are more likely to have, which autistic people shouldn’t take if they don’t have those health issues.
As for it being categorized as a disorder.
Homosexuality was classified as a mental disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) beginning with the first edition, published in 1952 by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).
Would you have said “I’m not hating on homosexuals, just think we should take things for what they are” in 1952?
Not to mention meds to suppress expression of autism traits and behavioral therapies like ABA that make daily existence a constant effort. But hey, they make it less awkward for allistic people to share spaces with autistic people. Or god forbid, have them accept that some folks have different ways of engaging with the world.
I take medication for my ADHD, not my autism. My autism is a part of who I am. ADHD is just annoying.
I replied to this person with some links, maybe you should give them a look too…
If people “liked” it, they wouldn’t be taking meds to help them function.
There are no meds for autism
It’s bigoted is what it is. Bigoted against neurodivergent people. Who, as you say, are not disabled.
A subset are disabled many because of how society has treated them.
I have done my own study and I also found a link between cows milk and autism. They are both on this image. Spooky stuff.
I found a link between milk and death.
Everyone who has ever drank milk has, or will, die.
Ergo, drinking milk is deadly.
Dihydrogen Monoxide is proven to be toxic to humans when injected and kills thousands of people every year.
Our waterways are completely riddled with this dangerous substance.
If you blow bubbles into its liquid form it’ll create carbonic acid
I heard it’s the major component of acid rain!
If peta was a person I would like to punch them
Btw this peta campaign was from 2008.
Fuck you peta
Frowns in lactose intolerant
Well shit, guess here I go with the vaccines again
Huge regions of the world are mostly lactose intolerant.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/lactose-intolerance-by-country
So there must be no autistic people there, right?
Of course there are autistic people there, they’ve got vaccines /jk
What the fuck. And I thought ‘vaccines cause autism’ was stupid and offensive.
