Since we’re concern-trolling about the cause of autism and linking it to Tylenol without any real testing or consideration…
There is actual proven ties to old testicles producing lower sperm counts and higher sperm mutation resulting in higher risks of autism.
So men over the age of 35? Clickety-clickety, you should not be hunting young women to impregnate because your sperm is of lower quality than the hot young sperm of an 18-34 year old.
I get the idea that men are searching for young women so as to counteract the spoilage of their own baby goop, but you can be a predatory creep without blaming women for causing autism.
“If only you hadn’t used acetaminophen when you were pregnant and in pain. You should have gritted your teeth and suffered through your discomfort for the wellbeing and safety of your child! Because even if your child wasn’t born with autism, you were a bad mom for even risking the possibility!”
And even the anti-vaxxer stance that vaccinations “turned my child autistic!” deserves actual serious consideration. Parents deserve real explanations. They need to understand that “No, vaccinating your child did not give them autism. Your child was born with autism. There is a thing where some autistic children start off without showing any signs of autism. They meet infant milestones as they’re supposed to, but around the same time that they are due for their first vaccinations, they begin to display the markers of autism in young children. Correlation is not causation. Just because early childhood vaccinations take place around the same time that people first recognize the signs of autism in an infant does not mean that the vaccinations caused the autism.”
If you would rather your child die from a preventable communicable disease than have them be born imperfect, then you should not be having children.
No child is ever what someone expects them to be, because they are people, and every person is different and unique.
Some are blind. Some are deaf. Some have learning disabilities. Some have physical deformities. Some are brilliant. Some are mean. Some are bullies. Some are beautiful. Some are ugly. Some have low emotional intelligence. Some have double joints. Some have small noses. Some have big noses. Some have especially smelly poops. Every child is different. And if you can’t love your child because they don’t meet your pre-birth expectations… then you should not have a child.
And to all those people shitting on the Vitamin K shot… You should shut the fuck up.
Vitamin K is a necessary vitamin that our bodies do not begin producing until we’re 4 to 6 months old. It is one of those things that a baby is born deficient in and that is not provided by breast milk. The advent of the Vitamin K shot has saved the lives of billions of babies around the world ever since it was first introduced.
One shot provided to a newborn can keep that baby alive until they’re old enough for their body to produce it naturally.
Before the Vitamin K shot, a tiny bump to a baby’s head resulted in a family having to buy a baby coffin. There’s a reason why in a lot of cultures people didn’t name a baby until it had survived the first 100 days or full year.
Infant mortality went down with the advent of the Vitamin K shot.
It sickens me when I see anti-vaxxers recommending that people not give their newborns the Vitamin K shot. Because those are grifters profiting off the fears of worried parents, and they are gleefully putting children at risk of horrific yet preventable diseases, AND they don’t even understand the purpose of Vitamin K shots yet they’re telling pregnant women to just say no to their newborn getting it.
So rather than worrying that Tylenol will give a baby autism, parents-to-be should be receiving real proven information and not the garbled snake oil sales pitches of grifters and losers.
And seriously: Why are you taking health advice from someone that literally had pieces of his brain eaten out by WORMS?
Like, EVERYONE knows that bear meat is riddled with worms and it’s one of those things you cook to well-well-done levels, yet that guy decided to eat it sushi-style. He is not a person you take life advice from.
Just the sound of his voice tells you that he has made a lot of bad decisions in his life. He is not a role model that anyone should emulate. The only reason he’s lived long enough to be so fucking old is because his family had a lot of money to afford him the best medical care available. The kind of medical care that 99% of people can only imagine in the abstract because it’s never going to happen for them.
Tylenol is one of the few pain relief drugs provably safe for pregnant people to use. Taking that away is not a cure for autism. It is a punishment on pregnant people for daring to not want to experience pain. It is a way to control and manipulate women. (And I say “women” because they don’t seem to realize that trans men exist. The very idea of a man getting pregnant? Complete sci-fi to them; their brains just don’t wrap around the notion at all.)
So anyways, rather than blaming Tylenol for autism, the focus should be on whether older men should be allowed to breed. And if that is a thought that makes you stand up and go “Whoa! That is a step too far! Every person DESERVES the right to have a child if they want one!” then you should also be the kind of person that accepts that no child is ever perfect but that every child should receive love and care and protection from the people around them.
There should be free meals in school. There should be free medical for all. There should be universal basic incomes that include housing credits because no one should ever have to fear that one mistake or lost job or bad house fire will result in watching the last of your personal possessions being thrown in a dumpster because The Haves don’t want to see The Have Nots struggling to survive in a severely economically imbalanced world.
You want everything to be nice and neat and happy, where you never have to see or hear about misery and bad things happening to people just like you? Then it’s time to tax the rich or eat the rich, but either way, a society only functions correctly when the society takes care of its members.
“It takes a village to raise a child” but it takes caring empathetic people to make a village.
If everyone sees themselves as a predator in a “strong eat the weak” world, then very soon the world will show the strong how easy it is to become weak. One bad fall. One job loss. One car accident. One mutated cell rapidly replicating into an undiagnosed cancer.
We are all living in this world together. Which means a small percentage of people should not be taking the majority of the resources and profiting off the rest of us.
They are ticks sucking our blood and giving us Lyme disease in return. And one way to handle ticks is to prevent them from latching on in the first place.
Stop letting them manipulate the narrative. They are trying everything they can to distract from what really matters: Freedom. Democracy. Environmental protections.
We are all living in this world. There is no other move-in ready planet that we can get to in our lifetimes. So we need to protect our planet and our lives, and that means not putting predators in charge of resource allocations.
They are shitheads. Stop voting for them and stop letting them decide how the 99.9% of the rest of us get to live.
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