Autistic Hedgehog

neuroatypically-speaking:

goldenheartedrose:

survivalxineo:

imtootired:

survivalxineo:

So it looks like the 60 doses of the 16 different vaccines are doing their jobs then. Too bad the parents aren’t doing their jobs by knowing what’s in those vaccines.

Poor kids are being sold out by their own parents and are completely helpless to stop it!

Nah, what it looks like more is that you’re an idiot. Autism isn’t a disease needing a cure, or a defect caused by vaccines, it’s a form of natural human variation. Just the same as being gay, or bi, or ace, or trans, or intersex, or whatever the fuck other myriad ways in which humans vary from one individual to another. Maybe you should know what’s in the vaccines you’re blaming before making ridiculous claims, and of course cite evidence to back yourself up while you’re at it. I wasn’t a poor kid because I was autistic, I was a poor kid because people have shit attitudes toward anyone who is different, which manifests in shitty nonsense claims like yours, where we can only be seen as disordered victims in need of rescue by muggles. Just get the fuck out.

Alright - you don’t see the link? You don’t put the one with the other?

Lets break this down then shall we?

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/additives.htm

Common additives found in vaccines as CITED from the CDC.

Aluminum
Antibiotic
Egg protein
Formaldehyde
Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)
Thimerosal (Mercury)

Just looking at this listing tells you that the common components are KNOWN to be harmful or outright toxic. I mean hell, this list sounds like a board of health violation write up from the truckstop waffle house or a rat infested chinese food restaurant in the dirty side of town.

So let’s look at some of the effects of just ONE known harmful ingredient …

http://hazard.com/msds/mf/baker/baker/files/m1599.htm

The Material Safety Data Sheet for Mercury states that KNOWN harmful effects include chronic effects such as:

“Chronic exposure through any route can produce central nervous system damage. May cause muscle tremors, personality and behavior changes, memory loss, metallic taste, loosening of the teeth, digestive disorders, skin rashes, brain damage and kidney damage. Can cause skin allergies and accumulate in the body. Repeated skin contact can cause the skin to turn gray in color. A suspected reproductive hazard; may damage the developing fetus and decrease fertility in males and females.”

I rest my fucking case!

This response to your soapbox’ed, uninformed, baseless, and ignorantly skeptical standpoint is longer than I really wanted to make it.

What I really hate is that people don’t even bother to think anymore. They do as they are told and one of the main things that people are taught, is to attack anything that goes against the state’s paradigm or philosophy of science, technology, education, medicine, or history.

Congratulations! You’re one of the idiots still chanting that the earth is flat.

Have you even considered for a moment that the people you’re responding to are autistic, and hey, might know something about autism (ahem, more than you do)? How about you consider some studies proving NO link between autism and vaccines.

http://yesthattoo.tumblr.com/post/37108102277/re-a-list-to-hopefully-shut-up-anti-vaxer-do-you

Also, if I have to say one more fucking time that <i>ethylmercury</i> is not dangerously toxic or that thimerosal isn’t in vaccinations given to children under seven, I might explode. 

Not to mention how many studies (we’re up to eight now, aren’t we?) have proven all this shit to be a load of hogwash, pedaled to ignorant douche weasels by fearmongering, greedy alt-med gurus. Most of the things found in vaccinations used as preservatives are not remotely toxic in the amounts in which they’re used, so your list proves nothing, OP, except that you’re yet another gullible anti-science child-killer. Congratulations! You’re one of the jackasses still chanting that the earth is the center of the universe! 

Go talk to some moon-hoaxers or something. We’re not in the mood for your counter-factual conspiracy theory bullshit. 

[“You lead a very active sex life? You can’t be autistic!”

Guess I’ll just stop then. … Pfft! Not!]

I’m not sure what exactly this particular generalization is supposed to be based on. The misconception that we’re all asexual? The misconception that we’re incapable of consenting to sex? The misconception that we can’t socialize enough to get laid? All of the above? Your guess is as good as mine.

[“You aren’t obsessed with a single interest? You can’t be autistic!”

Even Simon Baron-Cohen thinks you’re ridiculous.]

‘Nuff said.

[“You go to conventions and enjoy them? You can’t be autistic!”

So wait, which do I stop spending my money on? The cons or the noise-dampening headphones?]

Admittedly, the last time I was at a convention, the noise and crowds were too much for me to handle. This doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy myself at all, but I had no way to combat the issues I did have. Thinking about it, I figure noise-dampening headphones would be a pretty good way to get around some of the issues that crowded con halls might cause, and I wouldn’t be surprised to find some autistics do just that so they can enjoy their cons without so much overstimulation.

Which, I think, would lead to some confusion when it comes to this particular statement. Which one are you supposed to give up!? (That was not a serious question, I’m being facetious.)

[“You have children? You can’t be autistic!

Quick, help me figure out how to get them back in!]

I don’t actually have children (though there are plenty of autistic people who do) nor do I want them. But in a circumstance where I did have children (presuming, naturally, that I wanted them) this is my most likely reaction to such a ridiculous statement. I’m a smartass like that. 

[“You’re married? You can’t be autistic!

Whoops, guess I’d better go get a divorce then.]

So today, this [Trigger warning!] happened. (I’ve linked to my reblog, because people like this are notorious cowards who constantly delete their bullshit.)

I and a number of other autistic people on Tumblr and elsewhere, in all walks of life, are married. Yet according to this ill-informed windbag, this means we can’t have actual autism, but apparently some mystical form of Asperger’s Syndrome that basically does nothing at all, and thus we’re all just making excuses. 

I’d like to make hedgehogs for every item on their list of things that mean we can’t actually be autistic (in fact, I have several lined up) so hopefully I can come up with enough ideas. And if you have ideas of your own, please send them. Please?