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33. alas my brother passed in 2021

Sat Sep 27, 2025, 06:15 PM

14 hrs ago

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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 Yesterday OP

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

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

Exactly. Timeflyer Yesterday #6

Or the family attic Hekate 15 hrs ago #29

Or died. RedArkGuy 10 hrs ago #38

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

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

wow, another post worth of its own thread Skittles 17 hrs ago #22

Something I did not figure out until about a year ago, A lot of us can not say NO. LiberalArkie 16 hrs ago #24

had never thought of that Skittles 15 hrs ago #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 14 hrs ago #30

alas my brother passed in 2021 Skittles 14 hrs ago #33

I am so sorry to hear that. LiberalArkie 1 hr ago #41

Why? Cirsium 15 hrs ago #28

For personal reasons............... Lovie777 Yesterday #4

same Skittles 16 hrs ago #23

What?! yardwork 23 hrs ago #7

Apparently he has never heard of science or history. mwmisses4289 23 hrs ago #8

Good Lord. yardwork 23 hrs ago #9

It's not in their "world" (that they are willing to admit to) BumRushDaShow 23 hrs ago #10

Dr. Malarky Marthe48 23 hrs ago #11

There is definitely a strong genetic component. High-functioning autism runs in our family across 4 generations Martin68 23 hrs ago #12

It's definitely a continuum. yardwork 22 hrs ago #16

"I don't believe" PSPS 23 hrs ago #13

Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack, BootinUp 23 hrs ago #14

Quack back at ya. twodogsbarking 22 hrs ago #15

The modern-day phenomenon liberalgunwilltravel 21 hrs ago #17

I think there is a genetic component NH Ethylene 21 hrs ago #18

Autism is not new. ananda 21 hrs ago #19

But recognition and diagnosis have changed drastically over the years. eppur_se_muova 14 hrs ago #31

I don't exactly consider autism a defect. ananda 14 hrs ago #32

Call it a 'condition', then. Whatever you call it, it is something which only slowly came to be recognized. eppur_se_muova 14 hrs ago #34

Of course it exists. ananda 14 hrs ago #35

This message was self-deleted by its author valleyrogue 11 hrs ago #37

What I don't understand is why a high functioning and low functioning autism are both autism womanofthehills 12 hrs ago #36

He is shockingly uninformed. Tanuki 19 hrs ago #20

I would have been 14. I remember that article vividly. 3catwoman3 17 hrs ago #21

I don't think he knows what he's talking about struggle4progress 16 hrs ago #25

Rosemary Kennedy was given a frontal chelsea0011 15 hrs ago #27

We are different. Aussie105 7 hrs ago #39

Sigh lonely bird 1 hr ago #40