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33. alas my brother passed in 2021

Sat Sep 27, 2025, 05:15 PM

Sep 27

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he was in hospice and due to Covid I could not visit him - I was out of state and skyped with him via a nurse but he looked confused, like he didn't recognize me

I feel sad when I think of his life - autistic folk notoriously don't like change but that's all we had growing up in a military family - we moved constantly, sometimes overseas.....different schools almost yearly.

Now when so much more is known about autism there should be great advances in how such children are educated, for example......but now we have a bunch of quacks using these folk as political targets.....it is deeply disturbing.

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FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary tells Scripps News 'I don't think autism is genetic' [View all] BumRushDaShow Sep 27 OP

leucovorin-I have no doubt that some Republicans are making a ton of money off this stuff Walleye Sep 27 #1

You didn't see them generations ago bc they were warehoused in insane asylums. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 27 #2

Exactly. Timeflyer Sep 27 #6

Or the family attic Hekate Sep 27 #29

Or died. RedArkGuy Sep 27 #38

it wasn't REPORTED as much generations ago Skittles Sep 27 #3

Yes and just lived out their lives "Hermits" and 'Non-social" or "Anti-social" or "Non-conformists" LiberalArkie Sep 27 #5

wow, another post worth of its own thread Skittles Sep 27 #22

Something I did not figure out until about a year ago, A lot of us can not say NO. LiberalArkie Sep 27 #24

had never thought of that Skittles Sep 27 #26

You must tell him as most guys do not know or realize it. I wondered most of my life why I could not keep anything LiberalArkie Sep 27 #30

alas my brother passed in 2021 Skittles Sep 27 #33

I am so sorry to hear that. LiberalArkie Sep 28 #41

Why? Cirsium Sep 27 #28

For personal reasons............... Lovie777 Sep 27 #4

same Skittles Sep 27 #23

What?! yardwork Sep 27 #7

Apparently he has never heard of science or history. mwmisses4289 Sep 27 #8

Good Lord. yardwork Sep 27 #9

It's not in their "world" (that they are willing to admit to) BumRushDaShow Sep 27 #10

Dr. Malarky Marthe48 Sep 27 #11

There is definitely a strong genetic component. High-functioning autism runs in our family across 4 generations Martin68 Sep 27 #12

It's definitely a continuum. yardwork Sep 27 #16

"I don't believe" PSPS Sep 27 #13

Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack, BootinUp Sep 27 #14

Quack back at ya. twodogsbarking Sep 27 #15

The modern-day phenomenon liberalgunwilltravel Sep 27 #17

I think there is a genetic component NH Ethylene Sep 27 #18

Autism is not new. ananda Sep 27 #19

But recognition and diagnosis have changed drastically over the years. eppur_se_muova Sep 27 #31

I don't exactly consider autism a defect. ananda Sep 27 #32

Call it a 'condition', then. Whatever you call it, it is something which only slowly came to be recognized. eppur_se_muova Sep 27 #34

Of course it exists. ananda Sep 27 #35

This message was self-deleted by its author valleyrogue Sep 27 #37

What I don't understand is why a high functioning and low functioning autism are both autism womanofthehills Sep 27 #36

He is shockingly uninformed. Tanuki Sep 27 #20

I would have been 14. I remember that article vividly. 3catwoman3 Sep 27 #21

I don't think he knows what he's talking about struggle4progress Sep 27 #25

Rosemary Kennedy was given a frontal chelsea0011 Sep 27 #27

We are different. Aussie105 Sep 28 #39

Sigh lonely bird Sep 28 #40