RFK just said Autism “destroys families” and “children” and says Autistic Children are kids that will never pay taxes, hold a job, play baseball, write a poem, go out on a date, many will never use a toilet unassisted. He also said “We are doing this to our children and we need to put an end to it.”
This erases ALL of the Autistic People who can do these things (and further dehumanizes and devalues those who cannot).
There is NO “Autism Epidemic”!!!
According to the most recent report by the CDC, 1 in 36 children have been identified as Autistic.
Before that, they thought we were 1 in 44, and when I found out I was Autistic less than ten years ago, they were saying it was 1 in 59.
To the untrained eye, this may look as if there are “more Autistic People than ever.” However, in reality, Autistic People have always been here.
There aren’t “more Autistic People” on earth all of a sudden; we have more Autistic People BEING IDENTIFIED now (thanks to a few factors – increased awareness, understanding, and screening).
I've also seen people claiming that the increase in Autism prevalence is due to our increased awareness and understanding of Autism, which is partially true.
However, in addition to the expansion in our understanding of Autism and Autistic People, two main factors have contributed to the specific increase in the CDC's numbers:
The first major change that has had a significant impact on Autism numbers over the past fifteen years happened in 2007 when the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended ASD screening for every child (even if parents had no concerns) at both 18- and 24-month pediatric visits.
Before that, in 2006, the Autism prevalence rates were estimated to be 1 in 110. In 2008, as this program started rolling out, the data suggested that one in 88 children is Autistic.
A few years later, in 2010, once the screening practice had become more widespread, the estimate was 1 in 68. That number mainly stayed the same for a few years, coming in only one point higher (at 1 in 69) a few years later in 2012.
Another MAJOR change happened in 2013 when the American Psychiatric Association removed Asperger's Disorder, PDD-NOS, and Classic Autism as diagnostic categories with the release of the DSM-5, merging all three of these designations under the label of Autism Spectrum Disorder.
This change meant new people (those with Asperger's and PPD-NOS) would now qualify under the Autism criteria (instead of receiving a separate diagnosis).
They widened the criteria, so more people qualified as Autistic, and the numbers started rising again.
In 2014, we were 1 in 59. In 2016 (when I was diagnosed and started my blog), we were 1 in 54.
A few years later, in 2018, we were 1 in 44, and now we are 1 in 36 (but if you ask me to guess, it's closer to 1 in 20 - maybe more because the data doesn't count adults and those who aren't identified as kids).
Some families won't allow Autism screenings (due to cultural differences), and some underprivileged kids have less access to medical care and are often left out of screenings.
The more privileged Autistic People are more likely to be seen as Autistic, and those of us who are less privileged will have our Autism seen as other things (like mine was labeled "bad behavior" when I was growing up).
If we are not cis, white men, or come from families who don't have much, we are more likely to slip through the cracks, being diagnosed in adulthood (if we are even diagnosed at all).
Excerpt from a Substack post from January 2024 - Full post:
There is NO Autism Epidemic: Autism Prevalence 1 in 36 (According to CDC Data)
According to the most recent report by the CDC, 1 in 36 children have been identified as Autistic. Before that, they thought we were 1 in 44, and when I found out I was Autistic less than ten years ago, they were saying it was 1 in 59.
Transcript for today’s vido:
Lyric: And so I might get into some of the other things I had planned to talk about today. 'cause this has been a really big week, uh, in American fascism news. Um, because we really have kind of tiptoed into the constitutional crisis now that we're openly defying court orders, um, multiple court orders we'll say.
Uh, so, so that is alarming. Um, but because as an Autistic person myself, I feel I am. Uniquely qualified to comment on RFKs propaganda and anti Autistic bullshit that he was spreading today and has really been spreading, um, in general because he's always saying some problematic shit about Autistic people.
Uh, I, I feel like I'll cover that and hopefully others in the internet sphere who aren't Autistic can cover some of those other issues that are going on. Um, because this is kind of my niche here and I haven't talked a lot about autism lately because there have been a lot of things that are quite frankly a bit more pressing with what's going on in the world.
But here we go, because, uh, I see Autistic people becoming more of a, more of a heightened target by the Trump regime. We gotta talk about it. So here we go. And this one might be one I leave up, uh, for everyone to view after the fact. Just so everyone knows, your comments do disappear. After it gets re-uploaded.
So anything you say now will not be shared in the next like re-share version of the video. So it's like gone forever after, after the live ends, just so you know. So that's like a nice little safety feature that I, I think is really good here. Um, so I might leave this one up. We'll see how it goes. Uh, a lot of times these go behind the paywall 'cause I kind of go off on tangents and I just wanna keep myself safe.
Uh, but this one might be a little different. Uh, so RFK went on a rant today talking about this autism epidemic. Um, and you know, first of all, uh, I wanna talk about there's a problem like with the fact that they use this language epidemic, uh, around Autistic people. Like we are people, right? Um. If you were going around saying there's a, there's a gay epidemic, there's, or there's an epidemic of, of brown people.
Oh, wait, that's what they're doing with immigration, right? Um, you know, like they, they use this word epidemic, like they use these tactics, othering, fear mongering, scare tactics. This is something scary. Be afraid of Autistic people. Be afraid of the autism epidemic. It is a way to dehumanize Autistic people.
You know, we're saying autism is the, is the thing. Autism is the boogeyman. We're going back to this autism warrior parent language that 10 years ago. Before I was diagnosed Autistic was really, really common. This autism is this boogeyman. We got a fight thing and the warrior parents were rising up to battle against autism.
And then Autistic people getting snarky were like, I'm joining the battle of autism on the side of autism. Uh, and and that's where we were 10 years ago. Right? And this language goes right back to that, where it's like, Autistic people are terrible. Y'all shouldn't exist. And we want everyone to, to hate Autistic people.
That that's what this language does, is dehumanization of Autistic people. So if you had any other group of people and you were saying there's an epidemic of these people existing
that is eugenics language. Like we are, we are looking at eugenics here we are talking about anti Autistic eugenics very openly, right? Ugh. It's gonna be a long four years and beyond. So the other thing that RFK said multiple times in this most recent visit about this autism epidemic that does not exist is that there is a more extreme risk for boys to become Autistic.
Four to one compared to girls. So a couple things about that, uh, nobody becomes Autistic, but this is something they keep saying over and over again. These perfectly beautiful, healthy children become Autistic when they are two years old because of some kind of exposure. They've regressed and they become Autistic.
I've always fucking been Autistic like you are born Autistic and you're Autistic your whole fucking life, and you die Autistic. That's how the fuck it works. Okay. Excuse my language. I'm just tired of this crap already, right. RFK doesn't think Autistic adults exist. He literally doesn't think Autistic adults exist in the same speech he went on saying proof of this being a new trend is that it's only impacting children.
He literally said, this is only impacting children and that there are no Autistic people his age. I'm gonna guess he is in his seventies. He could be older. I can't really tell. He looks like a burnt piece of bacon to me. I'm sorry. We shouldn't go to personal insults. I just am so annoyed with this guy. He is like there.
There are no Autistic people my age walking around and it's like I have Autistic followers and readers and viewers in my community that are your age. Many of them, but they don't understand Autistic masking and Autistic blending in and camouflaging and that as we age. We pick up coping skills and tools and supports that allow us to blend in so we don't stand out as much.
He says, this epidemic began in 1989. I was born in 1987 and I was Autistic before 1989. I can see it in my baby videos when I'm just an infant the way I like, am just visually stemming with everything around me, uh, I'm sorry. No Autistic kids are born this way.
It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. I,
this guy doesn't know shit about autism and the fact that he says that boys. Are more likely to become inflected infected with his autism thing than girls are Even more points to the fact that he doesn't understand that there is camouflaging and social pressure for Autistic and neurodivergent people to blend in.
And that that social pressure is exponentially higher for people who are assigned girl at birth and people who are put through feminine social programming. Because if you're labeled a boy, boys will be boys. It's acceptable. So
it's all nonsense and it's all fear mongering and it's all made to make people hate Autistic people. Make people afraid of Autistic people. I. And so he called us epidemic deniers while he's representing, like he's misrepresenting all this data that he obviously doesn't understand, right? So I was born in nineteen eighty seven, two years before this autism epidemic supposedly kicked off.
But you know, I was Autistic back then too. I was Autistic back then, and I'm Autistic now. But you know the difference. I wasn't diagnosed, so I wasn't counted in that number. So that number from 1987 or 1989, I should have been in that number. I was alive then, but I wasn't diagnosed, so I wasn't counted. Do you know how many other Autistic people my age, I'm 38, were not counted in the data from back then.
Because we weren't included in the criteria yet because that criteria has grown wider over the years.
It is just like, like pretending Autistic adults don't exist at all. Um, and then, you know, okay, this is great, like talking about autism awareness month 2025. I didn't see it getting this bad is what I'm a quote. I'm about to read to you because I had to pause and rewind the video a few times to listen to this to be like, am I really freaking hearing what I just heard?
Uh, and I wanted to quote it correctly. So let me read you this quote, because today this is what RFK said about Autistic people and autism. RFK said autism destroys families and. Our nation's greatest resource, our children. So children are a resource. They're not like, uh, humans. They're not, they're not people.
They're a resource to be exploited. Gross. Okay. He continues. He also says, Autistic children are suffering, and kids like that will never pay taxes. Why did I pay my taxes yesterday? I didn't know I didn't have to pay my taxes. Are you fucking kidding me? We don't have to pay taxes because we're Autistic.
Why the fuck didn't I get that memo? I've been paying my taxes the past 30 something years. What? Well, not 30 something. I haven't had a job since I was, you know, but since I started working, I've been paying my taxes and apparently we don't have to pay our taxes. What? Okay. Sorry. Went on a tangent. That just, I was just like, what?
Damn. Uh, he also said, we'll never hold a job. Well, fuck, I've, I've held multiple jobs, different kinds of jobs. Um, this is kind of like a job, a little bit like a job. I don't know. Uh, he also said, uh, we, we, we'll never play baseball. He is right. I can't play baseball. I do not have the hand-eye coordination for that.
Sorry. Not my thing. So maybe he is a little right on that for some of us. Not, not for me. I can't play baseball. He's right. He got me. He got me. Okay. You got me? Let's try another one. Write a poem. Oh, no, no. I've written many poems, so that, that's another one. You're getting wrong, buddy. We've Autistic people.
I know a lot of Autistic poets. Hi, any Autistic poets out there? RF RFK says, you don't exist. You will never write a poem if you're Autistic. Um, you won't go out on a date. Oh my God. Somebody tell me and my Autistic spouse that we shouldn't be going on dates because Autistic people don't go on dates. Uh, many of us will never use a toilet unassisted.
Okay. You know, everybody has different levels with toileting and things. This is just one that they always bring up and it's really horrible because there are a lot of different disabilities that can cause people to have toileting problems or problems just with interoception. I think that's the right one.
Um, the, the sense of like what your bodily needs are. And it's like, I, I get this a little bit, like I don't pee in my pants or anything, but I like, don't realize I have to pee until it's like the very last minute and I'm like, oh, shoot, now I gotta run to pee and it's an emergency and like if I don't find a bathroom, it's gonna be a problem.
Um, and some of us will have these kinds of issues our whole life and for some of us it can be even worse. Right. But we don't need to stigmatize people who have bathroom problems. Okay. Like, that's like a whole separate thing that might. Occur with some Autistic people, especially those who have additional co-occurring disabilities in addition to being Autistic, like might have some kind of other difficulty or motor control issue that makes complex muscle movements.
Uh, such as like getting dressed and physically doing a lot of these things nearly difficult to impossible, like that is a possibility, but that's a co-occurring condition that is common in Autistic people that not all Autistic people have. We are on a spectrum, for example, clay Marzo, the Autistic surfer, um, has hand eye coordination that you and I probably can't comprehend.
Meanwhile, I'm over here walking into walls and doors, but I can roller skate, take my skates off, and I don't know where my feet are. I don't know how that works, but it's just a thing. Uh, so we're not gonna do any of these things, uh, and. He also said, we need to recognize we are doing this to our children and we need to put it into it.
So he's also in the same sentence, bringing back, blaming and shaming the parents for causing their children's autism, but in a whole new way. So it's your fault your child's Autistic now, but because you let them be exposed to something that, that's the new narrative and they are desperate to find people that can research, find research.
That'll back this all up. So we'll see where we go from here. But it's a grim day to be an Autistic person. Um, and you know, they just keep saying over and over again that environmental toxins must be causing this. And it's really alarming that he keeps saying this because okay, he's saying it must be caused by environmental toxins.
At the same time, he's saying, we will know the cause in this many months by September. So he's saying it's caused by this. We don't know the cause. It's caused by this. We will know the cause. It's caused by this we, so which is it RFK? Is it caused by environmental toxins or do you not know the cause yet?
And you will find the cause out by September? Can somebody just put me up on a stage to debate this motherfucker? I would love to tear him apart. I'm hungry for it. I don't usually like debates, but this fucker would be so easy to tear down. I'm just like listening to this like guy talk and I'm just like screaming to myself in the room.
The dogs are like, what the hell is your problem in incompetence? Nonsense. Just propaganda. They'd never like coward, would never debate me on August.
All right, so. Lemme just talk a little bit about something that I've shared previously about the data. Uh, I'm gonna do a little bit of like reading it off just because I wanna get this correct. Uh, and then I'm gonna look in the comments section. Um, so let's talk about why there's no autism epidemic really quickly.
Uh, so according to this most recent report from the CDC, which was now a couple years ago, uh, one in 36 children are identified as Autistic. Okay? Before that, it was one in 44. And when I found out I was Autistic less than 10 years ago, about eight years ago, they were saying it was one in 59. Okay? So to the untrained eye, this might look like there are more Autistic people than ever.
However, in reality, Autistic people, we've always been here. Remember I said it's one in 36, now it's one in 59 back then. But all of those groupings of data I wasn't included in. I wasn't diagnosed as a child and I'm an adult and they're only talking about childhood diagnosis right now. So a lot of us are left out of this data.
There aren't more Autistic people on the earth. All of a sudden we have more Autistic people being identified now, thanks to multiple factors. There's a crease in, there's increased awareness and understanding, and there's increased better screening. Um, and you know, it's not only due to increased awareness and understanding of autism, there's a lot of it that's due to that, but.
Something else people don't talk about enough. And I think if you don't mention this, you are really missing out on something that's really important, uh, is that we've had changes to our criteria. So more people now fit within the diagnostic criteria. So for example, the first major change, uh, that had a significant impact on autism numbers, uh, over the past 15 years, happened in 2007.
So what happened in 2007, we had the American Academy of Pediatrics start to recommend autism screenings for every child, even if parents had no concern at 18 and 24 months. So in 2007, I was already outta high school and I'm 38. So people my age and older, like we were basically adults when they started doing these screenings more widely.
So that's one thing that's gonna be a lot more identification. 'cause now they're combing through ti uh, through people with a fine tooth cone, whether you expect their Autistic or not. They're screening kids for autism. Autism. So that's a big deal in 2007. Okay, but wait, there's more. Okay. So before that, um, in 2006, the autism prevalence rates were estimated to be like one in 110, right?
Uh, and then in 2008, this, um, program that they, they put out, started to roll out and the data changed pretty quickly. And so in 2008 we had one in 88. Okay. Because we're, we're identifying more. Um, and so then we had something else happen in 2010. After the screening process has been like more widespread?
Uh, we had 1 68. Okay. So we, we do see a roll up in the numbers, but we are actually actively looking for Autistic people now. We weren't actively looking before, so of course if you're actively looking when you weren't previously actively looking, you're gonna find more because you're looking for it. If you're not looking for it, you're not gonna find it.
It's really fricking simple. It's not that complicated. Right. So there was another big change, and then we don't talk about this enough. 2013. Okay. 2013. It's been over 20 years now, right? No, 10 years. Sorry. Math is not my thing. Dates and numbers. Not, not my thing. Word, word story, my thing. Math. No, I'm not.
The math Autistic do not fit that stereotype. I'm not the accountant. You know, definitely not. Um, so what happened in 2013 is the American Psych Psychiatric Association words, uh, removed the Asperger's Disorder diagnosis from the DSM. They also removed P-P-D-N-O-S and classic autism as diagnostic criteria and merged all of these labels into one diagnostic category of autism spectrum, right?
So all of that is in the autism spectrum. Now, all of that, multiple different things that would've been separate previously are now all considered autism. So in 2013, we massively widened the bucket. We made it so much bigger, like things that wouldn't have technically been autism before are now autism.
And that's because they realized that a lot of these, um, diagnostic labels that they were giving weren't particularly helpful. The differentiations, for example, um, because, you know, just because like the Asperger's kids, a lot of times they said that they were the ones that were hyperverbal and they had, um, you know, intellectual giftedness a lot of the times.
Uh, but they also saw that these kids struggled significantly in adulthood a lot of times. And because they were given this other label, it was actually hurting them because people would say, oh, you just have Asperger's, you must not really need support. Uh, and so it really di diminished a lot of their struggles having this label.
Um, and then some of the other conditions got smooshed in as well. So like the criteria got so much bigger. So once again. Of course now there are more Autistic people again, because the criteria changed because our diagnostic labeling is really limited and has to constantly evolve. So that's another really, really big factor.
Uh, so that was 2013. Uh, and so like then soon after we had 2014 new numbers came out, right? And the numbers is one in 59. And then in 2016 when I was diagnosed and I started this blog, uh, it was, what was it, one in 54. Okay. So like that's where we see these numbers going up. Uh, 2018, it was one in 44 and now we're at one in 36.
But I secretly suspect it's probably like closer to one in 20. And that's based on no scientific anything whatsoever other than like just my observation of people in the general population and my assumptions that. Autistic adults aren't included in this data. And so the data they give is only Autistic children.
Um, and it doesn't retroactively include Autistic adults that were excluded from the data. And so, like my number includes all Autistic people, adults and children, and isn't pretending that Autistic adults don't exist because their study data only looks at children. Because their solution for being Autistic as a child is to put Autistic children in early interventions.
And some of those programs can be helpful. Um, you know, I, I asked once in a video that got someone really, I think intentionally misinterpreted and I said. If they're asking you to intervene in your Autistic child, ask what they're wanting to intervene in, like intervening in what, right. Uh, are they intervening in their natural Autistic development?
Are they trying to intervene and prevent them from being Autistic and presenting in an Autistic way? Um, you know, those things aren't helpful. Like, you know, intervening in other ca cases and other situations might be helpful. But if you're trying to stop an Autistic person from being Autistic, that's not a realistic or helpful intervention and you're setting them up for failure, right?
Um, but when we had this fear mongering and these scares in the past, and this idea that Autistic adults don't exist, it makes it seem like Autistic people are either gonna grow out of their autism or we're gonna be cured of it, and somehow we won't be Autistic anymore. And that's a really dangerous, slippery slope because that leads to.
Situations, which some of you might not remember, but I do because it was still happening when I was recently diagnosed eight years ago, where we had parents literally putting and injecting and giving their children bleach to drink because they thought autism was some kind of parasite that was inside their kids and bleach was gonna flush it out.
And they're posting pictures of their children's like intestines. They're like falling apart. Like, I can see it.
I need a break. That's a problem with being a visual thinker. Those vivid visual memories. Um, like this thing, this MMMR, MMS, what is it? That bleach solution thing? The bleach cult, the bleachers, like they were. They were risen up because people thought autism was something that could be cured and thought you could grow out of autism.
The entire a BA Autistic conversion therapy industry is grown around this idea that you can train the autism out of an Autistic kid, and as an Autistic, multiply neurodivergent person who had behaviorism used on them growing up to try and extinguish their Autistic and neurodivergent traits, I can tell you that it did not work, and it really hindered me throughout my life.
Created a lot of trauma and problems in me that I am still trying to unfuck my mind from, and it wasn't helpful to me. I needed to be supported. I needed to be seen as a person and not a problem. But this fear mongering, this anti Autistic language, this is not the answer.
So that's like the problem with this epidemic language. We're we're dehumanizing Autistic people. Let, let me get in the comments real quick. Let who, it was a rant. I just has so many feelings. Oh my gosh. So many comments. Wow. Think of your patience as I, uh, ranted and raved angrily about that. MF uh, shit happens in changes.
That's for sure. What, what's RFK lying about now? Everything. Same shit. Different day, really. Um, but now he's in a position of power while we can do it. Uh, and Andrew Wakefield's stuff like the president and RFK have been spreading. Yeah. And so he's like RFK said, um. Something about how we're gonna give you permission to research autism no matter what you find.
And nobody can take your license away. Which is like, totally like, 'cause Wakefield lost his license because he was discredited and they're like, basically like, here, junk science, if you can prove what we want you to prove don't matter. You're, you're in the clear basically is what this is. Oh, that's good.
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Oh, absolutely. I'm Audi DHD, late diagnosed woman in my thirties. This is the plan to remove the diversity and the mindset naturally are outside the lines of world. Yeah, exactly. We're the ones that question shit we're un governable. Exactly. I'm surprised he didn't blame DEI. Yeah, I don't, he's he is a different kind of bigot.
He's a different, he's a, he's a eugenicist. He's he is, he is a little bit different than the standard Nazi. Nazi light, I don't know. Uh, autism because of DEI, right? God no. We can't live like this for four years. And they keep talking about like they, Steve Bannon or whatever was like, I got five different ways to keep Trump in a third term and I think five of them are gonna work.
So Trump will be re inaugurated in January 20, 29, 29. I'm like, fuck you. Uh, if he lives that long, he is the world's oldest president. He could have a stroke at any minute. You never know. One can hope, I'm not even a praying person. Um, but you know, I might start, um, same people who push that vaccines cause autism.
Yeah. He's literally, yeah, that's the worm talking in his brain. Yeah. I'm 67. Always been Autistic. Yeah. 1990. Uh, exactly. A lot of therapy and my own. Practicing what I learned being bipolar. Yeah. I have three Autistic kids. Their grandma still talks about them growing up and I'm sorry. That's sad. And it's because of people like RFK perpetuating this kind of bullshit.
Uh, I just realized I have A-D-H-D-A year ago. I'm 40. It was such a relief to know I wasn't alone and that I'm masking was happening and empowering and now I'm scared to be myself. Yeah. I hate that. This is what we're coming to it. It shouldn't be like, so isn't the kinder world where we can all be authentically ourselves that I was hoping we'd create.
Uh, autism is not covid, so people need to be educated on the nuances of autism. Yeah. There's a functional autism and severe autism. Um, so here's the thing, um, about that, that a lot of people don't understand is it's not as simple as like there's one type of autism and another type of autism. Uh, a lot of Autistic people that are.
More impacted, don't only have an autism diagnosis. And so like the autism on its own isn't necessarily what's gonna make someone's life to where, you know, they might need full-time support. Uh, usually it's, it's like a plus autism situation. So like, you know, someone's autism and then they've got also comorbid intellectual disability, right?
Um, or Autistic plus severe seizure disorder, right? That could require around the clock care, autism plus cerebral palsy or you know, something, um, else which is a motor control condition. Autism and all of those things because you can be all of those things together. An Autistic person who is Autistic is gonna struggle, most likely less than Autistic person who has co-occurring disabilities.
Uh. Because just like thinking about neurodivergence as a whole, like when we have neurodiversity and neurodivergence, uh, for example, a lot of neurodivergent people, like we're not just neurodivergent in one way. We have multiple layers and neuro types on top of being neurodivergent. So I'm Autistic, I'm also a DHD, and I've also got other neuro types and brain types I don't talk about and share publicly, especially not now with what's going on in the world, but it's just nobody's business.
I know because it helps me understand myself better, but I don't need the rest of the world to know those things. Uh, knowing I'm Autistic because that's hard for me to hide helps because it helps me explain why I am the way I am, because people notice I am unique, I guess. I'm trying to think of a better way to describe myself.
Instead of saying Brave will notice I'm a fricking weirdo. No, it's like I'm not a weirdo. I'm a proud weirdo though. Like I use that term affectionately, but some people don't like it. But, um, you know what I mean? Um. Where was I going with this? Oh, that's what I was gonna say. Uh, so like those of us who have more neurotypes, more layers and more co-occurring disabilities on top of what's going on, like we're, we're diverging further from like this world that has been built to cater towards the average.
And so if we have more disabilities, more neuro types, more layers of marginalization, we're gonna be struggling a lot more. And so Autistic people that have other disabilities on top of being Autistic or even other marginalizations on top of being Autistic, are gonna have harder lives. Uh, and that, that's kind of the nuance a lot of people don't understand is it's like, it's not this high to low functioning spectrum.
It's not like a linear line. It's more like some people might have sensory issues that completely prevent them from engaging in the world or doing things unsupported. And sensory issues can, includes motor control, right? If you cannot physically like control your hands enough to feed yourself. Or to put clothes on or to go to the bathroom on your own, like you are gonna need an aid.
And motor control is a sensory issue. So if you have a severe motor control issue, that's going to impact every area of your life, right? But not all Autistic people have that difference. Um, or, you know, if you're an Autistic person and maybe you don't have that, but then you also have an intellectual disability that's gonna h hinder your life in different ways.
Um, and so like we've, we've all gotta be more aware that autism doesn't look like one thing. But what a lot of times they talk about with RFK is talking about autism. He is only talking about Autistic people who are struggling the most, uh, who don't have all of their needs met, or who are autism plus, plus plus, plus plus autism, plus a lot of different things going on, and not just Autistic, right?
And ignoring the rest of us. And it doesn't really, um, you know, help that we're ignoring that there is this nuance there. Uh, and then the other thing that I think is kind of a problem is like the assumption that like there's high functioning Autistic people or Autistic people. Um, because some of those Autistic people, like myself included, it's like our ability to function really is something that can fluctuate throughout our lifetimes.
Um, when I was burnt out and I wasn't doing well, my ability to do anything was in the toilet. And I was really physically and mentally unwell. Like I couldn't go into an office without having sensory overload and like throwing up and like almost passing out and I couldn't like. B in a Walmart. Like, I couldn't go into a store.
Like, I would like get that, like I had to run out of their feeling and I would have to run out of the store, or I would start having seizures. Like that's not functional, right? I was not functioning. Um, but the diagnostic label doesn't take into consideration that I might have those moments where I completely cannot support myself and I need help, right?
And so now, like I have to be really careful with myself because if I fall to that point of not being able to function because I am not properly supported and don't have my needs met because I'm expected to function, because I'm labeled as functioning, there's no help for me. There's no disability services, there's no support, there's no anything.
Like if I can't work, nobody's gonna pay my bills for me, like I am. Everyone just thinks you should be able to function. You're so high functioning. Like I even had a job where I tried to like ask for like some basic accommodations. Nothing that would've even cost the company any more money. Just like letting me sit in a different place or go back to working from home.
'cause that's what they hired me to do. And they were like, we can't give you special treatment. You must be so high functioning anyway. Like you couldn't work here if you weren't high functioning. So you must not really need your accommodations
so you can't fucking win. Right.
Giving me imposter syndrome and supporting family members of mine argue that I'm just lazy and weird and depressed. But in 1984 here, yeah, I see boys will be boys. I see Uhhuh. That's just for a lot of diseases. Yeah. And autism isn't a disease. That's the other thing they keep talking about. It's a disease.
It's a disease. It's like this infection, like it's something really bad and scary. It's not. It's not. You don't have to be afraid of Autistic people we're kind of cool. I. Autistic people are really awesome if you get to know us and stop apologizing us. I don't know why that's a song like alcohol is. Yeah.
Someone should go back and add data of people diagnosed now to the data. That would be really cool to see. I'm not a data kind of an Autistic person. Like I can understand data, but like crunching the numbers, like that's not my thingy. So if somebody wants to make the data, I can read the data and understand it, but like putting it together is not my deal.
Um, but I'd love to see that. I don't even know how we get all that data. Right. Like data of people diagnosed now to the data from all those years they were alive. No, it makes perfect sense. I don't know if other people get what you're saying, but I get what you're saying and I I'd love to know that.
Yeah. Wait, what? What? What?
So, yeah. Mm-hmm.
Uh, he is talking about our community, like we are zombies. Yeah. I was terrified every minute that he spoke, because the last time people spoke about a group this way in such an open way from a position of this much power. I know we're going with this. Uh, those people were tortured and killed in mass.
Yeah. I don't think it's an accident. He's denying the existence of Autistic adults. If people don't believe we are real, then in the minds of bigots we won't notice. Or they, they won't then wait. Then in the minds of bigots, the world won't notice or care if we are taken away or killed. Yeah. What the hell?
Yeah. What the hells, I'm not a poet, but I am a writer and I also a mom and I have a husband. Yeah. I can hit, I can't throw and I can run from the ball. Nice. Yeah. RF K's painting a broad brush on Autistic people says the men that thought aids came from poppies. Are you serious? I hadn't heard that one yet, but I guess it doesn't surprise me.
I can't remember. More than two dance steps. Yeah, I can't dance. I can wiggle my butt randomly and not attractively either. But I love to dance too. It's like I can sing, not well, but I, I, it'll torture everyone near me, but I'll still do it as you know, if you watch this long enough. 'cause it just happens.
That's why I'm lyric, because I never stop singing. Everything's a song lyric. Everything. Everything.
Here's the top doc in this country. I don't think he's a doctor though, isn't he? Not even a doctor. I don't even understand what his deal, but to my understanding, he's not particularly qualified. He doesn't know shit about autism. Fuck that guy. Um, all my anxiety and depression were definitely a result of chronic trauma from undiagnosed autism same Z and my C-P-T-S-D.
Hmm. He should be bragging about he Yeah.
Does not need to label it all, but advanced sciences are, yeah.
Mm-hmm. Yeah. No epidemic because it's not catching. Exactly. Epidemic would have to be contagious. Autism is not contagious. Oh my God. I just sneezed on you. I'm so sorry. I'm gonna give you my autism. Autism flying through the air. It's an autism epidemic. I've just infected the whole room. Wow. Autism powers.
You are welcome. You are welcome. You're gonna love it. I promise. It's awesome. You how ridiculous y'all sound. Oh my gosh. Not y'all, but like the MAGA people. Like, ugh, you don't even make sense. Uh, and kids are still missed in those evaluations. At 18 months, my daughter wasn't diagnosed until five. She was evaluated as a baby.
My youngest is likely also hasn't been identified yet at age three and a half. Yeah, of course his ratings go up. Certain things. He says, let's drive those ratings down as much as we can. That's what I think. Now they, now they think they discovered it. They are looking for obvious causes. Oh, words today, thyroid disorders.
Tonsillitis at one point. What? Oh. Yeah, this is Wiener dog. Would you like to see my wiener dog?
Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Bleach. Yeah. The, the bleachers was terrible. Mm-hmm. Uh, conversion therapy. What? Yeah. A BA Autistic conversion therapy. This is something I don't talk about as much because it like gets me in trouble. People get real mad when you talk about a BA, uh, it's a controversial topic. Um, and I just share from my personal experience as an Autistic person, bad behaviorism used on me and the trauma it caused because it really fucked me up.
Um, but I don't really talk about it anymore. I've got an archive of everything. 'cause I think I've said everything that can possibly be said about neurodivergent conversion therapy. If you just search, uh, neurodivergent conversion therapy on my substack, you can find a long list of posts. Um, yeah, because I think it's gonna be a lot more relevant between months.
It's tied to Christian nationalism. Lova who admitted to a BA, also made gay conversion therapy. His model student ended up committing. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Lova Lova worked on the Feminine Boy Project. The Feminine Boy Project is the Gay Conversion Therapy Project. Right. A BA, uh, he worked, Lobo worked with George Rutgers on the Feminine Boy Project.
Do we know who George Rutgers is? George Rus is Buddy Buddy with Jo James Dobson. Dobson is the focus on the family guy. Uh, Rutgers and Dobson are Christian nationalists. A BA has ties to Christian nationalism and you know, they are using the same methods to indoctrinate children in the church. It's all the same.
You can read it on, I, I've shared it before and it's in, it's in the archive blog post on a quote from Focus on the Family, talking about indoctrinating children. Now you have to get them when they're young and they're impressionable and it's easy to mold their minds. Basically. You have to get them while they're young and they're vulnerable and you can program them while they're young for forever.
It's really scary and sad, uh, but that's what they say about Autistic people. That's what they say about indoctrinating them into the church. That's what they say about queer kids. They say the same shit. Same shit. Different group of marginalized people. Would you like to see my old little man? You getting so old.
Old. You sleepy old. So cute. Just your little dose of cute, right?
Yeah. RFK is a bigot. That's putting it lightly. I saw Bannon on Bill Maher saying that about Trump for sure, being president third term, but Bill Maher read the. Constitutional law on two term limit, then handed it to him and he wouldn't agree to the interpretation. Bill took back his copy of the Constitution.
Yeah. They don't care about the constitution. They're trying to get around it as much as possible. They wanna burn the Constitution. It's an obstacle to them. It's, it's, uh, you know, they don't like the Constitution. Uh, I was always Autistic, but because I went through many traumatic experiences with zero supports since I was not allowed to an assessment until I was in my early thirties, I developed C-P-T-S-D, but my, by my early twenties, and have flares of C-P-T-S-D symptoms in times of high stress and triggering situations.
Uh, stimuli is, yeah. Uhhuh. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Same. And it's like, I think I could live with just being Autistic, but it's all the fucking trauma. I've learned to avoid my sensory issues, right? Like I can, I can create a sensory environment for myself. I can regulate myself to where I can handle sensory stuff on occasion.
Like if I have exposure to a trigger, if I'm well rested and I'm well regulated and I've been taking care of myself, I can handle little bits of sensory exposure. Now, I could never handle before when I was maxed out all the time because I didn't understand my sensory needs. But I can't do the same with the trauma triggers and like getting triggered in a trauma, trauma way.
Like, like that's like a whole different like journey I'm having to go through to like get to the root of all of my traumas. Um, I would love to be an Autistic person who's not traumatized, but I don't even know if we, in the society we live in now, know what an Autistic person who's not traumatized even fucking looks like.
Honestly, like the definition of autism in our medical books is literally only describing Autistic people who are struggling or in distress. Which makes it sound like an Autistic person can only be struggling and in distress, and there's no alternative to being struggling and in distress. And if we're not struggling and in distress, we somehow aren't Autistic.
That's bullshit.
Really. My Autistic daughter lives in Tokyo. The services she received boggles this American mind. No stigma. Just support. I fucking, wow, I didn't know that. That's awesome. Always love to hear what other countries are doing. Some countries are really behind, so it's cool to hear someone's doing it right. Uh, autism means thinking, processing, and then communicating differently.
Isn't a virus, a parasite, a brain worm? Brain or an infection? I can't believe we still have to explain this. Yeah, we shouldn't be, and we're gonna have to explain it a lot more because they wanna go back to making, they're convinced It's like caused by some like pollution, like. Of some sort. That's what they wanna convince everybody.
And whether it's true or not, they're gonna like manufacture studies to make it sound like it is. That's, that's my assumption to start collecting data on currently diagnosed adults. Since we don't exist. We don't exist. Does that mean we don't have to pay taxes? Damn. Shouldn't have paid those taxes yesterday.
I'm broke. Y'all fucking paying your taxes. Fucking Elon doesn't pay his taxes. Why the fuck do I gotta do my taxes assholes? Uh,
smart.
Yeah. Autism is disability. Non disease. Uh, exactly. And there's a difference. And there's nothing wrong with having a disability either. And that's a thing people like don't understand too. Uh.
There's smart people, Autistic, some Autistic people that have learning disabilities and that need help. And also, I wanna say there's different kinds of being smart. Like there's, there's like book smarts and then there's like other kinds of smarts that aren't tested on IQ tests, you know, and that's kind of the problem, um, with like intellectualism, like what about Autistic people, uh, who have Autistic syndrome and can paint these like really amazing like paintings and do art?
Like that's a different kind of smart that we don't quantify, right? Like, I don't like the idea of smart and gifted, and maybe that's because I was a gifted child and I was put into gifted programming and I was also in remediable and special education programming, and then I was also mainstream programming and none of it was really right for me.
Um, and being labeled as gifted as a kid didn't help me. In fact, it really hurt me that I was labeled gifted because since I had this label of gifted, I. Anytime I struggle with something instead of being supported when I struggled, the fact that I was gifted was used as some kind of like, gotcha. Like, you're being lazy, you're gifted, you're too good for this.
You, you should know better because you're gifted. You're too smart for this. Stop being lazy if you'd only just apply yourself. I don't know why my teachers like are all a Californian Valley person now. You know? I but it, that's, that was my life because I was labeled a gifted kid. Um, and it just put all these really ridiculous, unfair expectations on me, uh, and just took people's compassion away from me when I needed help.
And it like caused people to react to me with like scorn and annoyance and disappointment when I couldn't meet their expectations to be this well-rounded, uh, genius, they thought I would need it to be because I could, and all because I was gifted in one fricking area. I wasn't gifted in many things. I was just gifted in reading.
Somehow they thought that was gonna translate to math and science and like his, all this other shit and it didn't. And so I was exceptionally gifted in reading. And so they were like, you read at a college level in first grade, you should be able to do everything at a college level in first grade. And it's like, that's not how this fucking works.
And so it sucked to be me.
It's all relative. You know, we've got different skills, like spiky skills. A lot of Autistic people are like really good at that one thing, one or two things. And then like if I'm bad at something, I fucking suck. I am great at something or I fucking suck at it. Very little in between. That's me. I'm not well-rounded.
Um, and it's been used against me my whole life and it sucks.
When my kids were diagnosed, I was like, oh no, I don't know any Autistic people. Followed by the realization that tons of family members, including myself, would likely be diagnosed. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Exactly. And that's the other thing. Okay. I'm looking at people in my family both still living my, my and my ancestors here before I, I, you know, my generations previous and I can definitely see how some that I knew and even previous generations were likely Autistic and even some alive now that don't even wanna believe it for themselves are definitely Autistic.
And I'm like, Uhhuh, you're just like me, but whatever. So, yeah. Our previous generations were also Autistic. They just weren't identified.
I think I already answered the Christian nationalism ties thing, um, since you put that in there. But if not, uh, you can search it on my Substack, because I'm pretty sure there's a free post about it. Look up Ivar Lova. Look up George ERs, R-E-K-K-E-R-S. Look up James Dobson. Look up the Feminine Boy project.
Look up the founding father of a BA and look up focus on the family. And, uh, fuck, what's Dobson's other organization. I can't think of it right now. Anyway, those are all, you can, all those names tied together, buddy, buddy, buddy.
Uh, I was given an IQ test at 11 to test for intellectual disability after the results were diagnosed with laziness and being a same, yeah, I'm not gonna say what my, my score was, um, on the IQ test, but it was. Higher than they expected it to be. We'll just say that. Um, and it was used against me after that.
They're like, look, you're so smart. Like, you're just lazy. Like, look, you got a really hard, you, you've got a high score. You're lazy, you're lazy, you're lazy. See, it's proof, you're lazy. So it was like they were trying to use the IQ test to put me into, uh, special ed. And then they gave me all of these tests, like IQ tests, reading comprehension tests, like a maths test.
Like they gave me like all of these tests, like to just see, I don't know. I guess it's like all the tests they could do because the teachers would, my, my guardians would not sign off on tests for learning disabilities. So they did every other test they could get away with testing me for. That wasn't a test for learning disabilities.
So that's what the school did. Um, and so. They didn't test me for learning disabilities, even though they wanted to because it was forbidden for them to do. And they tested me on all of the subjects and including my reading and the iq and like all of those tests came back really high. And they were like, well, no.
Well the ones they could test, like, uh, reading and like iq and I think math was pretty good too, just 'cause I, I knew how to like outsmart a test 'cause a lot of 'em were multiple choice anyway. Um, that's a whole different thing, like the pattern of test taking and elimination. And if you gimme a bubble, multiple choice test, I'm gonna get a 90 something on it if I know even a little bit of the data.
Uh, that's like my Autistic skill. Uh, and so all these standardized tests I did really well on. Um, which didn't necessarily mean I understood the information in the standardized tests either. I just was really good at taking standardized tests and outsmarting the tests even if I didn't know the information.
Does that make sense to anyone? Does anyone relate to that? Farmers against thumper, eh, that's cute.
RFKs degrees are in history and literature. Are you serious in law? He also has experience in Qualifi. What the fuck? What the actual fuck? Wow. Okay. It's just really the history thing. It's just like I don't understand how anyone who like knows anything about history is not like, oh fuck, oh fuck. Oh fuck.
Oh fuck. Oh fuck right now. Like unless this is what they want to happen. So like even I'm like, oh, history. Really? Ew. That's concerning. If you like know about history and you're like cheering this on Yazi Gross. There are multiple intelligences. Exactly. I was like, I'm really, like, I have certain feelings about intelligence also.
'cause people call me names and insult my intelligence constantly 'cause of things I do. It's like I'm either too, too smart or too dumb depending on what I'm doing and who is observing me. And that's bullshit. Uh, yeah. The world is a vampire.
He got his credentials from Trump University. Ha ha. That's funny. Uh, not true but hilarious. Um, I can always do well on multiple choice tests. Yeah, same. It's, it's just my thing. Oh shit. I need to check my calendar. I have a meeting at some point today. Uh, I actually do have a call. Okay. It's got some time from now.
Uh, okay, cool. I was like, I just like didn't know. I was like, what time did I be in my calls? Make sure I'm not late. Um. My goodness, everyone, this isn't, ugh, this is how I wanted to spend my year. Isn't this, isn't it? I'm tired of this already. Like we're only a few months in. I'm fucking tired. I don't wanna do this for four more years or a year, more years, or six months or,
and honestly, it needs, like, we, we've gotta put a stop to something soon now before it keeps getting worse. Um, as an Autistic person who can actually debate RFK, um, Autistic people are gonna start being targeted in different ways. We were targeted in Nazi Germany, and we will be targeted again. Black and brown people are already being targeted right now.
Immigrants are being targeted. People who are dissenting, um, voices are being targeted. Peop, American citizens are being harassed at the border when they're returning treated like criminals. Um, it, it's, we're going in a bad direction.
Yeah. And we, we, we, we've got our midterms is next year. Yeah. I don't think we have time to get to midterms that, that's the problem. Like, people keep saying midterms are next year, and I'm just like, y'all think we got, you think we can wait till midterms? I, I don't think we, I don't, I don't think we can wait till midterms.
Um, you hear that dog snoring really loudly. A pit bull is like snoring on the floor underneath my feet. It's kind of funny. Sounds like an old man snoring. It's a pit bull. Um, but you know, we've got.
Our president is openly defying. Court orders, multiple court orders. Now, as of yesterday or as of this week, um, we have people being grabbed by unifor, people who have their faces covered, who aren't identifying themselves off the streets, being disappeared, kidnapped, people are being kidnapped off the streets, no due process and sent kidnapped to foreign gulags concentration camps.
What, like, I saw a quote that was talking about, um, like what's the difference between a prison and a concentration camp and the, the difference is the concentration camp is operating outside the law. Since our president is disobeying court orders operating outside of the law to send people to these camps, that would mean that we are sending people to concentration camps.
Sea Cot is known to be the place where nobody leaves. And it is more than, I think, double if I'm getting that number correctly, past its occupancy. And they keep taking more and more people in and nobody leaves there. They keep taking, they're, they're way past occupancy. Nobody leaves and they keep taking more and more people and they wanna send more.
I'll let you do the math yourself.
It's not good. So, you know, I, I don't think waiting till midterms is, is, is an option we have, right? Because this is happening as far as we know to, you know, green card holders and, um, immigrants. But because people are being sent without any due process. There's no way to know who's being sent. There's no way to know if anyone who's being sent has any kind of criminal record or history has ever committed any kind of crime in the past, because until you've gone to court and you're presumed innocent until proven guilty.
So these are presumed innocent people have not been proven guilty sent to concentration camp without due process. And for all we know they're innocent. For all we know they could be citizens. 'cause we don't know who these people that were sent are. We, we, we don't know if the people sent were criminals or citizens or legal residents or had a right to be here.
We're dangerous or not dangerous if we don't have due process. For all we know, there are already American citizens sitting in Sea Cot right now because there has been no due process from people sent. And so that, you know, we've, and now we've got the president talking about sending Homegrowns, gonna send the Homegrowns next, talking about he wants to send American citizens to Sea Cot and other facilities.
He wants to find a way to deport American citizens if there's a legal way. He says, but we know it's pretty clear. There's no legal way. Uh, but they're saying like, can we unnaturally people maybe like they're, they're talking ways and a lot of people are theorizing that they will probably start with the prison system and people who are in prison for violent crimes and, and, and people in the prison system, that's probably who they'll start with.
Uh, mostly because people outside of prison systems are less likely to be empathetic for those crowds and will be like, yeah, send them. Like, which is really fucking horrible because, um. Disproportionately marginalized, poor black and brown neurodivergent people are the ones who are, people with mental health conditions are the ones who are gonna be in prison, right?
So, you know that that is an attack on neurodivergent people, on marginalized people on. You know, he's also said like the ones that have something wrong with them, like saying, you know, so are they gonna start deporting people who have mental health problems? Because, because people have mental problems, we're gonna deport them and instead of getting them the care that they need, now remember they've been talking about Trump derangement syndrome, and he said, these deranged individuals, he said they're deranged, right?
So he's talking about deporting people who are deranged. But Trump derangement syndrome is. Speaking out against Trump and not going along with Trumpism. That's being deranged according to Trump. So does he want to deport people who are deranged? By Trump's definition, deranged is not agreeing with him.
It's a slippery slope.
Just my Autistic, as I notice patterns, right? So words that are used over and over again stand out at me. So like whenever I see that they're using the same word a lot, and a lot of them are using the same words for different things, I'm just like, there's that word again. There's that word again. There's that word again.
There's that word again. And so it's easy for me to start seeing where things are connected. Nope. Nope, nope.
Yeah, we need to put pressure on really impeaching Trump and getting him outta office. Like that's really what needs to happen. They need to get his ass out now yesterday, really thank you for the live stream today. Still feeling from news over the last two days and processing alone is hard. I don't see the regime allowing elections if we don't have an impeachment trial started.
Multiple contempt of court orders issued to the White House by the federal judges whose orders they are defying or sanctions threatened from the UN and ICC before 2025 events. Yeah. Yeah.
It's hard and it's like we're not alone. Like there are others out there that get it, but like it's, it's even harder if you're surrounded by people that don't. And the, the news the last few days has been really fricking heavy. Right. Um, yeah. And so people are gonna march on Saturday. Um, I'm getting a tooth pulled at the end of the week, so I don't know how I'm gonna be on Saturday.
I did get my camera batteries so I can go down there without my mobile device on me and not be tracked. Um, and so I've got my DSLR ready to go and got a bunch of batteries gonna charge up now. Um, but depends on this and which protest I go to. 'cause there's a few different options. There's different, you know, places I could go.
Um, I rent a car so I'm all incognito and I'm not in my own vehicle. Like I got a plan. Um, but also I do feel a little uneasy just 'cause I am, it's starting to feel more dangerous for dissenting voices. Um, the first white passing journalist or social media person grabbed, I'm going to be like. Very alarmed because I don't think it's, if it's, it's not if, but when, it's when that happens, right.
Every, yeah, I agree. Every last person sent there without due process needs to be brought back. And it's like they're being sent to these inhumane conditions too. You've got no rights there. You don't get visitors once you're there, you don't get to see your lawyer, um, you don't get to see the outside air.
I don't think ever again, like there's like no windows. It's, it's horrific. And if you've seen the people, like, they're just like stacked in there. It's like a fricking, like, like a, like a factory farm with a bunch of animals crammed into close to each other. It's really gross. There's an election in Canada, April 28th.
Ooh. Carney has elbows up international connections. It's an excellent economist. He stood up to Trump and will continue to do so After he is elected, there will be positive changes in the us. I don't know a lot about Canadian politics, but I am so proud of Canada right now because it seems like, uh, you are all very united against Trump and his trumpery.
No tooth pulled. If possible, it would cost you more with an implant later. Okay, everyone has said this after, like to me, when I've told them I'm getting a tooth pulled, I can't afford the alternative. I have had a hole for like, maybe almost a year now that I've been filling myself with Den Tech, and it's at the point where something needs to happen.
It's causing me pain and it needs to come out or get crowned, and I don't have the $3,500 to get a crown. I do have the 300, I've, I've saved up the 320 something dollars to get it pulled, and so I'm gonna get it pulled. They're just gonna take it out and pull it because that's all I can afford to do with it.
And it fucking hurts. Uh, they can't fill it in because it's already like, it's this back tooth and like the tooth in front of it's already had a root canal. There's this whole thing. Um, but like, I trust my dentist. He's a medical, um, professional who I really do trust. He understands that I literally can't afford to do anything else with it.
Um, I I actually, it wouldn't be a bad thing if my teeth move and see like, are you a dentist? Let me ask, like, you're giving me all this dental advice. Are you actually a dentist? Because like if you, you know, it kind, it kind of, it kind of matters. Um, this is the, yeah.
Ridiculous. Yeah. But, uh, here's the thing. Uh, I have a small mouth that's actually overcrowded and so these are all crammed together and it's this back tooth back here. And so it actually would be beneficial for me if I had more space in my mouth. So it actually really depends on your mouth. And I don't think you know enough about my personal dental situation to be giving me this advice in a safe way.
Like you're giving me medical advice on the internet without like viewing my x-rays and knowing what's happening in my mouth. Like that's really dangerous. And also like, okay, so you're telling me, oh, don't do this medical procedure. You've been waiting like maybe a year to have. And it's like that, like the hole has gotten so deep, but it's like almost to the part where it could be like dangerous, like for me to get like an infection or something.
Like it needs to go, it needs to go also because I don't know, like in the next six months if I'm gonna be like on the room or like on the run or something and then like not be able to get this taken care of because, you know, fascism is coming. Like, I need this tooth gone before fascism gets worse. Like, uh, no.
And it's like, I, I promise I have really discussed it in, in depth with my dentist. Um, and I, I, I actually had more teeth than I needed in my mouth when I was younger and like, there's like a whole thing. Um, but I think we'll be fine. Uh, I've got so much overcrowding, I'm really not worried about it. Uh, I appreciate your concern.
Like I know you're coming from a good place, uh, but it's really not advisable to like give someone like health advice over the internet when you really don't know everything about, uh, their health, you know? Um. And also it's like you're like, Hey, have this procedure that costs three grand. It's like, hey, I don't have three grand.
Uh, dental insurance isn't something we get in America that is reasonable. Like I have dental insurance, it's still gonna not covered. Like, it's, it's crap, you know? Um, it's, yeah. Hopefully you won't be on the run. Yeah. I seriously hope so too, but you never know. Do you worry about David as well in this time?
I worry about both of us. You know, I think I worry more than David. David's like a less worrying kind of a person. Um, yeah, but I mean, like always I worry more about David with law enforcement, you know, because anytime David and I have any kind of interaction with law enforcement, it is. Always been very fucking obvious how much different I am treated.
Little cute, sweet and non-threatening. Me and David, who is not much bigger than me, but a masculine presenting dark skinned person is treated so much differently than I am. Right. And like it's just crap because like David and I both come from families that have been in Texas since before Texas was even part of the United States.
Right. And like we also have family or the dog drinking water. I can't, um, oh my gosh. Like, you know, it's just like the borders have crossed a lot of us. Like if you've been in Texas for generations and generations and generations before Texas was Texas or before Texas was even Mexico, like the borders just seem really fricking pointless.
Like, so it's just kind of ridiculous. But then again, like I know I've seen a lot of reports out of the Navajo Nation that like indigenous peoples are being detained and stinking ice agents aren't taking CBID cards as id, which is just like, if an indigenous American is not an American and fuck the rest of you.
I'm sorry, that's crap. But, uh, just being a dark skinned person is more dangerous right now. Especially like a Spanish origin, like Spanish speaking, um, central American, like brown. Like that seems to be like the main target right now. Um, but also like Palestinians and people from that side of the world.
Um, I could be wrong, but that's just kind of what I think. So it's scary, you know.
Yeah. Alright everyone. Um, it's getting hot and I can't have air conditioner. Will I do this because in an rv an air conditioner is really loud and so you won't be able to hear me if the ACS on and like I am sweating so much right now, so I'm gonna shut this down. Let it like process. I need to cut a little piece.
There's something I said I didn't mean to say. I'm not gonna say what. Um, I need to see if I can cut that out and if I can cut that one thing I said out that one thing I said that I didn't mean to say. I will put this up as an indefinite public rewatch if I can cut that one piece out. If, if not, it's gonna have to go behind a paywall.
Um, so I'm hoping I can cut it out. I don't know if Substack has a tool or not. Um. But yeah, it's probably gonna take a while for this video to like process. It usually takes at least an hour and then I can publish it. I've got a call I've gotta get ready for. Um, thanks for coming to my rant today.
Everyone. If you're going to the protest this weekend, please stay safe. Um, there are some different resources to know your rights, like look at the red cards. If, uh, if you're like a, a, a migrant, an immigrant, or your legal status is question, I would recommend sit this one out. Don't be, don't march. Don't march if you don't feel safe.
But we need as many bodies in the, in the streets as possible. Um, especially if we see this, uh, like thing happen that everyone's scared might happen on April 20th, the day after. And also, don't get violent. Like don't, don't be violent. Don't get violent. Don't, you know, keep it peaceful when you're out protesting.
They are. I. Begging for us to get violence so that they can like say, look, we need martial law. Don't give them the fricking excuse to do it. Okay. Uh, and just be aware because historically, throughout time of this country, they have always had infiltrators that they send into our peaceful movements to make it look like we are doing violent bad things when we're not.
And so just be aware those people might be around trying to make us look bad and to be on the lookout for those kinds of people this weekend, because just got a funny feeling, man. I, I just hope everything goes really well. Um, we, we've gotta stop this. We can't let this keep going because the longer it keeps going in this direction, like the harder it's gonna be to like correct it and just send it back in a more constructive like positive direction.
Like a safer direction. Like we're going into like dangerous and dangerous. Territories. So like, we need to course correct before there's way too much for us to do. Um, you know, no, take care. All as a, I stand in solidarity with you all. Thank you. Uh, protect yourselves and everybody except, uh, everybody.
Even from the violent MAGA cult. Yeah. Yeah. We'll, stay safe. Um, you know, we, uh, like, like, it's like people need to remember this isn't the left versus right issue. You know, this is a us versus the ultra greedy billionaire oligarchy, right? That's what we need to remember. It's not us first, it's, it's us.
Like the people. The people versus the oligarchy, the people. There's a lot more of us than there are of them, and that's something we need to remember. Like we are powerful and they get their power from us. If we no longer believe their money has value all their money, which is what gives them their power, power is gone and they have no value and they have no power, right?
Like, if we no longer participate in their systems or buy their products or work for them, they lose their power because they get their power from us. They get their power because we give them their power and we allow them to have their power. And a lot of us don't realize it, and they don't want us to realize that they don't have power without us.
So just something to think about as we go into this weekend and everything going on. Uh, stay safe out there everyone. Thank you so much. We'll see you next week. Bye.
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