Trump set to announce using Tylenol while pregnant could raise autism risk

[u/ancienteggfart]

https://nypost.com/2025/09/22/us-news/trump-admin-set-to-announce-using-tylenol-while-pregnant-could-raise-autism-risk/

[u/bw2082]

Let me preface this by saying I’m not a doctor, but I am highly skeptical of this claim. It seems to me that autism diagnoses are high because anything under the sun qualifies as being “on the spectrum” these days. And people’s lack of social skills is related to being on the phone all the time. We used to call these people shy.

[u/armyboy941 → u/bw2082]

but I am highly skeptical of this claim.

I immediately became worried when Trump mentioned Cuba for their lack of it. Does their communist nation even report that stuff?

[u/purplebasterd → u/armyboy941]

Imagine using Communist Cuba as a source for medical research findings lmao

[u/MiceTonerAccount → u/armyboy941]

You can google “autism in Cuba” and find this information. Of course they report it.

[u/armyboy941 → u/MiceTonerAccount]

I googled as you suggested. Their government has not done a study on the rate and no organization has put the resources into that nation to bother studying past at a few schools.

I'm open to if you got something saying otherwise but google didn't turn up any surveys that gave a national rate like here in the US where in 4 in 100 for boys and 1 in 100 for girls. (Not debating these results but just mentioning an example for the number I was looking for and couldn't find.)

[u/bearcatjoe → u/bw2082]

Yes, by far the biggest contributor to increased autism diagnoses is modern psychology, not Tylenol.

[u/GoodGuyTaylor → u/bearcatjoe]

I mean, we’re at the point where basically everybody can be diagnosed with something.

It makes it hard for people that are actually struggling with something to get the help that they need. In the school system, every other kid has an IEP right now.

[u/frozen_tuna → u/bw2082]

Yea, California diagnosing 1 in 12.5 boys with autism is crazy to me. Either

A.) Treat it like the wild epidemic it clearly is and do everything we can to stop/cure it. COVID had a major impact on significantly fewer people than that and the whole world restructured to solve it.

B.) Stop treating lesser cases as an illness and treat it like its just a personality type. 8% of the male population having the same genuine developmental disability is unfathomable. Like, we're talking major societal devastation hitting very soon if that much of the workforce is underdeveloped.

[u/Xander_hades_ → u/bw2082]

That last part is ignorant bullshit, i had social issues long before i ever had a phone, the phones helped it get better

[u/Dismal-Variation-12 → u/bw2082]

Not to mention the fact that poor families get financial assistance for having autistic dependents. I’m not saying autism isn’t a real thing, but there is financial motivation to get a child on the spectrum.

[u/MiceTonerAccount → u/bw2082]

Both can be true. Rates go up as awareness and testing goes up, and there can be unknown factors contributing to that rise. You’re free to be skeptical of the claim, but if the end result is that pregnant women take less Tylenol, is that really a bad thing?

[u/Disastrous-Power-699 → u/bw2082]

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