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ASPartOfMe
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07 Dec 2024, 12:35 pm

https://x.com/repmtg/status/18650420792 ... DGNqpjUrsA

When I looked in the mirror today I saw me not nothing, so I did not “fade into autism”


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07 Dec 2024, 2:07 pm

ASPartOfMe wrote:
When I looked in the mirror today I saw me not nothing, so I did not “fade into autism”


Makes me wonder if when she meets autists, does she only see autism and not a person?


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07 Dec 2024, 3:07 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
ASPartOfMe wrote:
When I looked in the mirror today I saw me not nothing, so I did not “fade into autism”


Makes me wonder if when she meets autists, does she only see autism and not a person?

I don’t want to know what she sees.


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07 Dec 2024, 4:43 pm

Much of this anti vax stuff is centred around the number of vaccines given in US in early life causing autism.

Other countries have a much higher rate of autism, with hardly any vaccines given compared to US so the theory is nonsense.

Looks like Qatar has the highest rate 151.20 per 10,000, Libya has 90.60 per 10,000 Children, the US 80.90. If civil war poverty hit Libyan kids get more vaccines than US kids ill eat my hat, even though i don't wear one. :D

https://www.totalcareaba.com/statistics/autism


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07 Dec 2024, 5:08 pm

carlos55 wrote:
If civil war poverty hit Libyan kids get more vaccines than US kids ill eat my hat, even though i don't wear one. :D


I'll buy you one. It's a safe enough bet that I'll join you for hat-lunch. :nerdy:


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