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    ”We asked 10 autistic people if they’d drunken milk before and 100% said yes, therefore more milk causes autism!“ - peta, probably.

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          I know “what shall we do with the drunken sailor” I just only put the one word to make it clear what I meant

          also not to be rude it’s minor and I’ve done it myself plenty but as far as I can tell there’s no indication of their gender or pronouns in their bio or comment history should put they not he sorry if you know them from somewhere else don’t mean it to sound aggressive I’ve unconsciously assumed people on the internet are guys too before

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              yeah that’s what I thought I didn’t think it was midgendering or anything like I said I’ve done the same

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            Love your way of pointing out the accidental gendering. These are exactly the thoughts that are in my head when I want to correct someone on this.

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    Am I the only Autist who is extremely offended by people saying “this or that” causes Autism?

    It’s annoying when corporations try to use the condition as a tool to further their bullshit arguments.

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      You should be offended, and PETA has been doing this forever to make people think eating animal or animal products is bad. But their assertion also implies autism is a negative thing, which is untrue.

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      You are absolutely right to be offended. I have neurodivergent people in my family. I love them dearly. I wouldn’t want them to be any different. My father (likely) had autism. He was a professor who got invited to lecture at the Sorbonne and wrote something like 30 books. My brother has autism. He makes far more money than I do because he’s a really good coder and he’s happily married. Neurodivergent people can live lives as full of success and happiness (and lack of success and unhappiness) as anyone else. They just do it differently.

      Acting like autism is some sort of horror that parents should fear is disgusting.

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        On my way to work, there’s a house I always pass with an “autistic child” sign, a yellow square sign, next to the road. I just feel offended seeing it. Even if the individual in question could be low functioning, inattentive, actually at risk of walking into the street or something, that sign has probably been there past their childhood into adulthood, and a sign to announce your child’s autism to drivers is just… something else.

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      it’s ironic because arguably society “causes” autism, if society wasn’t so fucked then things like autism and ADHD would just be quirks to take into account.

      “oh yeah mary doesn’t like speaking to strangers so we tend to hang out together so it’s easier for her”

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    If that was statistically significantly true, Sweden would be autism central. We have since sometime in the 70’s been giving our children milk with every meal.

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      When I was growing up through the 90s in America this was a pretty normal thing too. I drank a lot of milk as a child. Like I have a lot of anxiety now but other than liking trains I don’t really seem that autistic.

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        We had a huge campaign for kids to drink milk in the 80s and 90s. There was the ‘Milk: It does the body good’ ads, which became a pop culture sensation, and then they did the “where’s your mustache” ads where they had all kinds of supermodels and other celebrities drinking milk and showing a milk mustache.

        Of course, the dairy industry is hugely subsidized in the U.S.

        Basically, everyone in the U.S. born between about 1975 and 2005 should be autistic.

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    I hope the evidence is more substantial than the “link” between vaccines and autism…

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    I wouldn’t be surprised if PETA was secretly funded by meat companies as a way to make the image of vegans look bad

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      Interesting take. I wonder which aspects of their business you have in mind?

      As much as I think campaigns like this are counterproductive to the animal rights agenda, I am strongly in favour of euthanasia, even mass euthanasia, as a responsible and humane solution to woefully irresponsible human industry. I believe that life is without intrinsic value, so it is straightforward to me that a life of suffering is worse than simply not existing.

      I’ve been vegan for around 25 years, and in this time I’ve been interrogated about my beliefs enough times to feel confident saying folks tend to struggle more with the latter. Take, for example, the way no-kill shelters (or even rescue groups) tend to get sanctimonious at traditional shelters - the very same shelters they look to when they find themselves facing tasks too burdensome. btw, bbq fundraiser, guys!!

      So, as long as we aren’t including this utterly soul-rending but critical work in our judgement of PETA, I think I’m with you.

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    Holy shit. That’s bad. There were some very poor quality studies done on whether autistic people had a worse inflammatory reaction to A1 proteins than allistic people ( https://atypicalscience.org/a1-beta-casein/ ) but they were certainly not implying that milk causes autism or that autism has a “cause” that should be avoided.

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    Dude aside from the wack implication that you can develop autism, this is super fuckin… Like i dont wanna say ableist cause i dont view autism as a disability. obviously it can be but literally anything severe enough can be a disability, but i digress. This ad is just super fuckin agressive to people on the spectrum for no reason. I knew peta was bad but goddamn

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    I have done my own study and I also found a link between cows milk and autism. They are both on this image. Spooky stuff.

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      Dihydrogen Monoxide is proven to be toxic to humans when injected and kills thousands of people every year.

      Our waterways are completely riddled with this dangerous substance.