@punishmenthurts i actually didnt know that "rumination" was a thing until after i was diagnosed....usually we just call it "brooding" or overthinking....

i do find it funny that terms we use for animals -----ruminating and brooding----- is all we have to describe this incredibly debilitation aspect of being autistic.

#actuallyautistic #autism

And then there's the way in which #autism (and other #neurodivergence but I daresay, autism especially) has been muttered about as being the cause of the #trans phenomenon. Both, of course, are widely blamed upon some easy physical cause. Microplastics maybe, or chemtrails or nanotechnology or strange radiations beamed into cell phones or YouTube hypnotism vidoes or—you name it. "Sin as contagion" is too easy an explanation for them; it's become almost all they can imagine as a cause for any psychological or social mishap. It must be something in the water, something in the air, something broadcast by villains over the radio.

Not that anyone who talks this way really has the will to stop the calamity, mind you. The poisoning or corruption via technology isn't talked about as something that can really be fought except by...culling the infected.

~Chara

Well...they have a way of dealing with that. The #Christian parent has learned ways of regarding their own children as permanently lost to them, damned, DEAD to them even. Satan wrested their child from them, it wasn't THEIR fault!

#Autism seems to have gotten pride of place, in the contemporary American imagination, in terms of...well, being a diabolical affliction. It's freely talked about as though it were worse than death, worse than being carried off by a senseless case of diphtheria, worse than being starved or drowned or otherwise done in by...certain manifestations of Christian love. There's reliable money to be made from the occupation of "autism parent", in selling oneself as a martyr to autism, which took their child's soul away from them.

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I bring this at last back to my starting point, which was ruminating worriedly upon how U.S. society deals with #autism, which is—like it or not—largely governed by the fears and desires of the extremist #Christians who have pervaded secular U.S. institutions, especially anywhere there's #children. Right-wing Christians since the 1970s have stoutly asserted that nobody cares more about children than they do; they act as though parenting and child-care are their special area of expertise, and they have (somewhat astonishingly, to me) almost completely erased their obvious and frightening degree of faith in resorting to force and physical abuse from mainstream discourse.

#Christian writers on parenting routinely advocate violent methods of instilling obedience into children, they've been critiqued in the press many times, but they've so far managed to seal themselves into a privileged and protected place in U.S. discussion about children and #parenting. The weasel words "religious" and "faith-based" and "Biblical", liberally applied, seem to dampen all serious inquiry.

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@ProPublica It's the perfect storm of a antivax/autism denialist kook running the #CDC to the ground.

#RFK #autism #antivax #COVID