Stop blaming moms for #autism - Decades before the headlines about #Tylenol, moms have always had to worry if they were to blame for their child’s autism. Sara Luterman, Disability and Aging Reporter for The 19th, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the so-called “refrigerator moms” of the 1950s, and what today’s rhetoric from the Health & Human Services Secretary mean for mothers struggling to navigate a difficult diagnosis. #KERAThink
https://think.kera.org/2025/11/07/stop-blaming-moms-for-autism/

@cs

It would be very nice if we were to move away from the mindset that autism is the sort of thing that someone should be blamed for.

@publius yes, and although they hint at it, they don’t really address that in the audio of the podcast/broadcast
@publius we don’t “blame” anyone for brown hair or left-handedness, or at least most of us do not.