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Donald Trump Announcement Today - Tylenol Cause Autism · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  OK, guys, I think, yeah, I, I want to address the crazy in the
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  room right now. Trump comes out and says Tylenol
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  or acetaminophen causes autism when taken during pregnancy.
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  There's a lot to unpack. Let's let's get into it.
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  OK, what on where on earth is going on?
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  Right. So I'm autistic.
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  I, I'm an autistic ADHD, you know, man, born in 1986.
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  My mum, she fell when she was pregnant with me and I think
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  that was the only trauma that was caused during the time that
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  she was pregnant with me, to me whilst I was in utero.
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  Now, look, there are some things that we do know scientifically
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  and, and I'll go through those right now.
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  So scientifically, the raw data shows that there are certain
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  genes that are involved in autistic individuals that are
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  present for autism. They call them autism genes.
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  And those genes actually turn up as markers when autistic
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  individuals have genome screenings, right?
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  They say, oh, these people have these genes.
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  It's kind of like they call it the autism gene because it's
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  typically aligned with that. I don't know the exact names of
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  these genes, but just type in the autism genes you'll you'll
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  see them. But this isn't A cause of
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  autism. This is just a by product
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  scientifically that we know that autistic individuals have these
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  genes. OK, causes of autism.
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  We don't have any, We don't know any no known causes.
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  However, we do know a few different things.
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  So 1 is that when oxygen is starved to the baby either
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  during birth, during the birthing canal or in utero, what
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  happens is the the oxygen starvation actually causes
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  slight swelling of the cerebral cortex in the brain a little
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  bit. And where this has been
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  recorded, autism has also been present in the infant once you
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  know, they can assess them. So that's we know this.
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  And there was a smaller study done a few years back where they
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  looked at women who'd taken the the Tylenol drug or the
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  acetaminophen. And when they were pregnant,
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  those, those children had swelling in utero of the
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  cerebral cortex. And This is why the mothers took
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  the Tylenol, not the Tylenol didn't cause the swelling of it.
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  And then those children were recorded to having autism,
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  right? Because again, of this swelling.
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  Now when Trump stands up with RFK and there's, there's a lot,
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  there's a lot to this, but we'll get through it.
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  This is an unedited raw video from me.
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  Just my thoughts because everyone's going crazy online
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  about it. And rightfully so.
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  I think there's a lot to talk about.
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  They stood up on stage in the White House, you know, a
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  supernation. The Americans like they lead the
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  world in many ways, you know, and they they come in, they come
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  up and they say Tylenol during pregnancy is the smoking gun
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  we've been looking for is causing many autism kind of
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  diagnosis, which is crazy to think about because you got to
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  think about the people who have taken a acetaminophen during
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  pregnancy and those babies are not autistic, right?
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  So how do they come to this? So I was expecting them to say,
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  here's the scientific data, here's the evidence.
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  There you go. But unfortunately we never got
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  that. We just got Trump saying, Hey,
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  Tylenol's bad, you know, don't take it.
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  You know, all all these kind of rhetorics like, and I know that
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  they've kind of got a war on for like the the gunning for the big
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  pharma right now. And, and I do agree that
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  sometimes big pharma can be, you know, too big and they're for
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  profit not to help people, right?
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  And that can happen, but it happens in everything, right?
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  So that is kind of crazy. And the claim that just just a
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  blanket statement that Tylenol causes autism, I mean, there's
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  no you, you just can't, right? It's just not going to happen.
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  So if we look at the bigger picture, though, what we can't
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  lose sight of is RFK wanting to a, that there's kind of two
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  objectives, right? A, they want to find a, a link
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  or a cause. Like why is there an increasing
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  risk risk? Why is there an increasing
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  diagnosis of autism than never before?
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  Why are we increasing? And there are a few different
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  answers to this, right? That we already kind of know,
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  you know, that the, the, the assessment criteria is becoming
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  more refined. We're having better tools,
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  better practices, There's more feedback, we have community
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  feedback now. And so we're more refined, so we
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  can actually spot it easily than we used to.
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  Now, I mean, I understand he wants to find an answer to why
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  there's an increasing rate, and that's what he's been paid to
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  do. I get it, OK?
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  I don't think he's going to find that answer other than outside
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  of the fact that we already know it's because we're getting
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  better tools, right, and better clinicians.
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  But if we look at the bigger picture, he's also trying to
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  help people because this is some of the rhetoric that Trump was
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  using. He was saying things like, you
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  know, it destroys families, It's awful.
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  It's a disease, you know, and autism.
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  And Trump is using very basic language.
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  And this is one of the interesting things about Donald
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  Trump. He uses a type of commutative
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  language which is relevant to his audience, you know, if
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  you're speaking to the general public, the average reading age,
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  if somebody is like a third or fourth grader.
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  So, you know, This is why, like I, I remember this vividly when
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  the Princess Diana of Wales that was in the car accident and you
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  see, oh, she was a fatal accident.
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  It was like Dodie dead, Diana injured.
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  There was no, there was no context to it wasn't like
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  Princess Diana's been in a car crash with her boyfriend, Dodie
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  all fired. There's some serious
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  complications going on. No, there was nothing like that.
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  It was Dodie dead, Diana injured.
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  Like, you know, basic, very simple English and Trump uses
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  those terms. So he uses terms like like
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  disease because it it sparks attention.
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  People like, OK, I really, I understand the word disease, you
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  know, And so the general population, we have to try and
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  communicate, but then also sparks a debate.
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  People say, hey, why are you trying to cure autism?
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  Why are you saying it's dangerous and destroys families
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  and things like that? And I think where that comes
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  from is the second objective of helping families or helping
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  people who have severe autistic issues, right?
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  And what I mean by this, and I did a small like TikTok on this
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  earlier so you can check it out on TikTok.
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  And by the way, guys, if you want to follow along with the
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  rest of the stuff you know that I do here on YouTube and and the
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  other platforms, you can just hit the subscribe button and I
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  would be most obliged. You're amazing.
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  Thank you for being here on this journey.
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  Now, in terms of helping people with autism, you know, I have a
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  level 2, I have autism ASD level 2, which means that I have a
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  lower support needs than maybe my friends who are Level 3 who
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  have no verbal speech. They are more in their own
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  world, so to speak, and they may wear diapers and need 24/7
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  supervision, right? That's a serious condition and
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  it is autism because autism is a spectrum, right?
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  How you know how condensed is autism, you know, on the
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  spectrum like a lighter into the more like more condensed then
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  and and that is how they come up with the levelling systems and
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  they used to have high functioning, low functioning
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  Asperges, classic autism, infantile autism, Kenna, you
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  know, infantile autism and those people who have profound
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  difficulties caused by autism. You can understand that if
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  somebody said, Hey, I can help you live more of a typical life
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  and get you out of diapers, you know, in your 20s and and help
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  you, you know, with with speech. Well, of course that's a good
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  thing. Like nobody wants to be in
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  diapers in their 20s, right? And so those people walked
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  inside those bodies want help. And I get it.
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  So RFK, yeah, I get he's trying to help people so that they can
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  increase that potential towards life, but there's no curing of
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  autism. It's just helping increase their
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  potential. And so when we look at stuff
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  like Trump's rhetoric, I don't think he means it in a way where
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  he hates autistic individuals. I think he's using this very
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  simple language, but it is, you know, on a public stage and
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  we're going to react to it. But it was besides the point.
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  I just wanted to say about the rhetoric so that we could
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  understand where they're coming from and why that lines with
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  what RFK is doing. And so although I think it's a
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  good thing to help autistic individuals putting crazy
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  statements out about Tylenol or Cetaminophen that are not based
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  on anything, because you have to come out with a crazy statement
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  and not give us some scientific evidence.
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  So I want to know, how do you guys feel about it?
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  I, I don't know, like I understand what they're saying
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  and all the words. None of it makes sense.
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  It's kind of crazy. OK, guys, I'll see you in the
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  video tomorrow. Peace.