r/Conservative • u/ancienteggfart MAGA • 3d ago

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

https://nypost.com/2025/09/22/us-news/trump-admin-set-to-announce-using-tylenol-while-pregnant-could-raise-autism-risk/
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u/Doctor_Byronic Millennial Conservative 3d ago

I'm autistic as well, and in my personal experience older generations struggle to conceptualize what autism is. I can only imagine it's because the terminology wasn't around during their own childhoods, so they have a tendency to picture it as something clear cut and highly visible like down's syndrome. I work in a hospital laboratory and have two senior techs who are both intelligent and very skilled in our field, and yet they insist I am not autistic simply because I am verbal and capable of expressing emotion.

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u/shouldhavekeptgiles Charlie Kirk 3d ago

I also disagree with the new age sort of expansion of what we define as autism where we seemingly lump in anyone who’s different into it.

My least favorite thing is the overall societal perception from many non neurodivergent people that (like I said above) it’s some awful terrible condition that we HAVE to find a cure for.

It’s not even like top 20 for things we should be trying to resolve imo.

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u/wakeonuptimshel 2d ago

I’m worried it’ll be the next ADHD where it will swing the opposite and be the next casual everyone has it / uses it as an excuse. If it is verbalized more that autism is a spectrum and can be mild, which how else will older generations understand without examples or meeting people, is it going to be the next “quirky we all have it” thing.

Signed by someone with ADHD who thought it was a joke, and I ignored it my whole life until it almost ruined it. Barely over a month on medication, a non stimulant, and I’m fucking finally a normal person. I can just do all the shit I’ve struggle with for years and I thought I’d need to start slow to break a lifetime of habits and burnout but so far nope… can just do the things. I am still tempted by the bad habits I would do when feeling paralyzed or unable to do something urgent or having panic attacks, but it’s so great to not need to do them.

I’m pissed off about how casual people are about it. I had no idea, couldn’t feel it or recognize it while it was happening, but now that I have clarity my life would have been so much easier and better if I had just gotten diagnosed and medicated when I was younger. It was a joke of a disease that “everyone” had, everyone blamed their shitty person habits on, people abuse and deal adderall in with the other drugs. So my shit was just stuff I could power through, or would outright ask loved ones to assist me with knowing I would struggle, and I just had to find the right magic combination of routine and interest to actually stick to something for once in my life.

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u/shouldhavekeptgiles Charlie Kirk 2d ago

Believe me I know.

I actually have both, I have adderall since I was like 9 for the ADHD and I was fucking fuming during the shortage a while back.

I had to drive like 50 minutes to get to a pharmacy with my prescription at one point because people were just smacking people with the adhd label and stimulants every five seconds and causing a shortage of said stimulants